Other CS1-related Publications
Experience Report: CS1 for Majors with Media Computation.
Beth Simon, Paivi Kinnunen, Leo Porter, Dov Zazkis. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2010.
Introductory Computing Students' Concepts of Illegal Student-Student Collaboration.
Michael Stepp and Beth Simon. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2010.
For Me, Programming Is ... .
Beth Simon, Brian Hanks, Renee McCauley, Briana Morrison, Laurie Murphy and Carol Zander. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Computing Education Research Workshop, August, 2009.
Learning styles: novices decide.
Carol Zander, Lynda Thomas, Beth Simon, Laurie Murphy, Renee McCauley, Brian Hanks, Sue Fitzgerald. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2009.
CS1 students speak: advice for students by students.
Brian Hanks, Laurie Murphy, Beth Simon, Renee McCauley, Carol Zander. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2009.
Learning computer science: perceptions, actions and roles.
Anders Berglund,Anna Eckerdal, Arnold Pears, Philip East; Paivi Kinnunen, Lauri Malmi, Robert McCartney, Jan-Erik Mostrom, Laurie Murphy, Mark Ratcliffe, Carsten Schulte, Beth Simon, Ioanna Stamouli, and Lynda Thomas.
European Journal of Engineering Education, 34 (4), 327-338.
First Year Students' Impressions of Pair Programming in CS1.
Beth Simon and Brian Hanks.
Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, September, 2007.
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Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), January 2008 (best of ICER volume).
Relationship of Early Programming Language to Novice Generated Design.
Tzu-Yi Chen, Alvaro Monge, Beth Simon.
In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, February 2006.
Strategies that Students Use to Trace Code: An Analysis Based in Grounded Theory.
Sue Fitzgerald, Beth Simon, Lynda Thomas
First International Computing Education Research Workshop, October, 2005.
Other Publications
Experience Report: Peer Instruction in Introductory Computing.
Beth Simon, Michael Kohanfars, Jeff Lee, Karen Tamayo, Quintin Cutts. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2010.
"Novice Professionals: How Newly-Hired Recently-Graduated Software Developers Fare in their First Software Engineering Job". Andrew Begel and Beth Simon. Beautiful Evidence, Ed. Greg Wilson. O'Reilly Press. In Press.
What is the Value of Course-Specific Learning Goals. Beth Simon and Jared Taylor
Journal of College Science Teaching, 39(2), 52-57.
Novice software developers, all over again.
Andrew Begel and Beth Simon.
Fourth International Computing Education Research Workshop, September, 2008.
Struggles of New College Graduates in their First Software Development Job.
Andrew Begel and Beth Simon.
In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, March 2008.
Do Students Recognize Ambiguity in Software Specifications? A Multi-national, Multi-institutional Report.
Tammy VanDeGrift, Beth Simon, Dean Sanders, and Ken Blaha.
In Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age Paola Inverardi and Mehdi Jazayeri (editors), LNCS 4309, Springer, 2006, pp. 71-88.
Reducing Overheads for Acquiring Dynamic Traces
Xiafeng Gao, Michael Laurenzano, Beth Simon, Allan Snavely
IEEE International Synposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC05), Oct. 2005, Austin
Do Students Recognize Ambiguity in Software Design? A Multi-national, Multi-institutional Report.
Ken Blaha, Alvaro Monge, Dean Sanders, Beth Simon, Tammy VanDeGrift
27th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2005.
Students Designing Software: A Multi-National, Multi-Institutional Study.
Josh Tenenberg, Sally Fincher, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, Alvaro Monge, Jan Erik Mostrom, Marian Petre, Kris Powers, Mark Ratcliffe, Anthony Robins, Dean Sanders, Leslie Schwartzman, Beth Simon, Carol Stoker, Allison Elliot Tew, Tammy VanDeGrift.
In Informatics in Education, 4(1). 2005, pp. 143-162.
A multi-national, multi-institutional study of student-generated software designs.
Sally Fincher, Marian Petre, Josh Tenenberg, Ken Blaha, Dennis Bouvier, Tzu-Yi Chen, Donald Chinn, Stephen Cooper, Anna Eckerdal, Hubert Johnson, Robert McCartney, Alvaro Monge, Jan Erik Mostrom, Kris Powers, Mark Ratcliffe, Anthony Robins, Dean Sanders, Leslie Schwartzman, Beth Simon, Carol Stoker, Allison Elliot Tew, Tammy VanDeGrift
4th Annual Finnish/Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education, October, 2004.
Path Analysis and Renaming for Predicated Instruction Scheduling.
Lori Carter, Beth Simon, Brad Calder, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante.
In International Journal of Parallel Programming. December, 2000, pp. 563-588.
Predicated Static Single Assignment
Lori Carter, Beth Simon, Brad Calder, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante.
In Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT). October, 1999.
Schedule-Independent Storage Mapping in Loops.
Michelle Mills Strout, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante, Beth Simon.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), San Jose, CA, 1998.