ITiCSE 2018

Preliminary Conference Program

Paper Sessions

Keynotes

Posters

Working Groups

Tools, Tips and Courseware

Panels

	Monday 2 July 2018
08:30-09:00	Welcome & Opening Session Lecture Theater 1
09:00-10:30	Keynote: Prof. Judy Robertson Dancing Rainbots: Computing Education with Girl Guiding Lecture Theater 1
10:30-11:00	Posters Session 1 and coffee break Room: University Foyer Session Chairs: Mark Zarb and Stephan Krusche Andrew D. Hilton, Genevieve M. Lipp, and Susan H. Rodger: A Technique for Translation from Problem to Code Guido Rößling and Jacqueline Gölz: Preparing First-Time CS Student Teaching Assistants Guido Rößling and Felix Broj: An Interactive Online Course to Raise Awareness about Diversity Xinjian Luo, Qianni Deng and Tao Liao: Pipelining Collaborative Test for Improving Student Performance in Introductory Programming Courses Viggo Kann and Örjan Ekeberg: Student Based Program Development Madeleine Lorås and Trond Aalberg: Informatics study day: Helping CS students become better students Kate Sanders, Sally Hamouda, Brett A. Becker, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Judy Sheard and Simon: How Statistics are Used in Computing Education Research Richard Glassey: Managing Assignment Feedback via Issue Tracking Ana Romero and Jose Divasón: Experiences and new alternatives for teaching formal verification of Java programs Stig Møller Hansen: Towards Bespoke Creative Coding Curricula: Mapping Structure and Content in Tertiary Graphic Design Education Programming Courses
11:00-12:30	Session 1Α CS1/CS2 Room: CY017 Session Chair: Leigh Ann DeLyser Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Michelle Craig and Andrew Petersen: Improving Complex Task Performance Using a Sequence of Simple Practice Tasks Alireza Ahadi, Raymond Lister, and Luke Mathieson: Syntax Error Based Quantification of the Learning Progress of the Novice Programmer Keith Quille and Susan Bergin: Programming: Predicting Student Success Early in CS1. A Re-validation and Replication Study	Session 1B Artificial Intelligence Room: CY007 Session Chair: Raja Sooriamurthi Jose A. Maestro-Prieto and Arancha Simon-Hurtado: The Pedagogical Model of SIAL: an Adaptive and Open-Ended Intelligent Tutoring System for First Order Logic Amruth N. Kumar: Collateral Learning of Mobile Computing – An Experience Report Haoyu Zhou, Haifeng Zhang, Yushan Zhou, Xinchao Wang, and Wenxin Li: An Online Multi-Agent Competitive Platform for AI Education	Session 1C Working Groups 1 Room: Lecture Theater 2; Session Chairs: Guido Rößling and Bruce Scharlau WG1: Contrasting CS Student and Academic Perspectives and Experiences of Student Engagement WG2: Global Perspectives on Cybersecurity Education WG3: A Review of Novice Programming Research 2003 - 2017 WG4: An International Investigation into Student Concerns regarding Transition into Higher Education WG5: Cloud Computing: Developing Contemporary Computer Science Curriculum for a Cloud-first Future WG6: Modeling Global Competencies for Computing Education
12:30-14:00	Lunch University Cafeteria
14:00-15:30	Session 2Α Assessment for CS1 Room: CY017 Session Chair: Stephan Krusche Michelle Cook, Megan Fowler, Jason O. Hallstrom, Joseph E. Hollingsworth, Tim Schwab, Yu-Shan Sun and Murali Sitaraman: Where Exactly Are the Difficulties in Reasoning Logically about Code? Experimentation with an Online System Kristin Stephens-Martinez and Armando Fox: Giving Hints is Complicated: Understanding the challenges of an automated hint system based on frequent wrong answers Reza Soltanpoor, Charles Thevathayan and Daryl D'Souza: Adaptive Remediation for Novice Programmers through Personalized Prescriptive Quizzes	Session 2B K-12 Room: CY007 Session Chair: Amber Settle Heather Bort, Shion Guha and Dennis Brylow: The Impact of Exploring Computer Science in Wisconsin: Where Disadvantage is an Advantage Veronica Cateté, Nicholas Lytle and Tiffany Barnes: Creation and Validation of Low-Stakes Rubrics for K-12 Computer Science Anna Lamprou and Alexander Repenning: Teaching how to Teach Computational Thinking	Session 2C Tips, Techniques, and Courseware 1 Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: Roger McDermott John Aycock: Stick to the Script: Lightweight Recording and Playback of Live Coding Stephan Euler: Board of Symbols – a tool for teaching programming Andrew Petersen and Daniel Zingaro: Code Reviews in Large, First Year Courses Mirela Gutica: Improving Students’ Engagement with Large-Team Software Development Projects Sahand Sadjadee: Reducing Students' Waiting Time for Assistance in Programming Laboratory Sessions by Using Electronic Queueing Isabelle Blasquez and Hervé Leblanc: A Guideline to Teach Agile Requirements
15:30-16:00	Posters Session 1 and coffee break Room: University Foyer Session Chairs: Mark Zarb and Stephan Krusche Andrew D. Hilton, Genevieve M. Lipp, and Susan H. Rodger: A Technique for Translation from Problem to Code Guido Rößling and Jacqueline Gölz: Preparing First-Time CS Student Teaching Assistants Guido Rößling and Felix Broj: An Interactive Online Course to Raise Awareness about Diversity Xinjian Luo, Qianni Deng and Tao Liao: Pipelining Collaborative Test for Improving Student Performance in Introductory Programming Courses Viggo Kann and Örjan Ekeberg: Student Based Program Development Madeleine Lorås and Trond Aalberg: Informatics study day: Helping CS students become better students Kate Sanders, Sally Hamouda, Brett A. Becker, Anna Eckerdal, Robert McCartney, Judy Sheard and Simon: How Statistics are Used in Computing Education Research Richard Glassey: Managing Assignment Feedback via Issue Tracking Ana Romero and Jose Divasón: Experiences and new alternatives for teaching formal verification of Java programs Stig Møller Hansen: Towards Bespoke Creative Coding Curricula: Mapping Structure and Content in Tertiary Graphic Design Education Programming Courses
16:00-17:30	Session 3Α Assessment Room: CY017 Session Chair: Robert McCartney An Ju, Ben Mehne, Andrew Halle and Armando Fox: In-Class Coding-Based Summative Assessments: Tools, Challenges, and Experience Burkhard C. Wünsche, Zhen Chen, Lindsay Shaw, Thomas Suselo, Kai-Cheung Leung, Davis Dimalen, Wannes van der Mark, Andrew Luxton-Reilly and Richard Lobb: Automatic Assessment of OpenGL Computer Graphics Assignments Anthony Kleerekoper and Andrew Schofield: SQL Tester: An Online SQL Assessment Tool and its Impact	Session 3B K-12: Outreach Room: CY007 Session Chair: Susan Rodger Ashok Basawapatna, Alexander Repenning, Mark Savignano, Josiane Manera, Nora Escherle and Lorenzo Repenning: Is Drawing Video Game Characters in an Hour of Code Activity a Waste of Time? Leigh Ann Delyser: A Community Model of CSforALL: Analysis of Community Commitments for CS Education Nearchos Paspallis, Irene Polycarpou, Panayiotis Andreou, Josephina Antoniou, Paris Kaimakis, Marios Raspopoulos and Maria Terzi: An Experience Report on the Effectiveness of Five Themed Workshops at Inspiring High School Students to Learn Coding	Session 3C Project-based Learning Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: John Impagliazzo Isabelle Blasquez and Hervé Leblanc: Experience in learning Test-Driven Development: Space Invaders project-driven Ville Isomöttönen and Aletta Nylén: How Students Get Going-Triggers for Students' Learning in Project-Based Education An Ju and Armando Fox: TEAMSCOPE: Measuring Software Engineering Processes with Teamwork Telemetry

	Tuesday 3 July 2018
09:00-10:30	Session 4Α Discrete Structures Room: CY007 Session Chair: Kate Sanders Ali Erkan: The Educational Insights and Opportunities Afforded by the Nuances of Prim’s and Kruskal’s MST Algorithms Laura E. Brown, Adam Feltz and Charles Wallace: Lab Exercises for a Discrete Structures Course: Exploring Logic and Relational Algebra with Alloy Gaetano Geck, Artur Ljulin, Sebastian Peter, Jonas Schmidt, Fabian Vehlken and Thomas Zeume: Introduction to Iltis: An Interactive, Web-Based System for Teaching Logic	Session 4B Teaching Programming Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: Guido Rößling David W. Brown, Sheikh K. Ghafoor, and Stephen Canfield: Instruction of Introductory Programming Course Using Multiple Contexts Vinhthuy Phan and Eric Hicks: Code4Brownies: An Active Learning Solution for Teaching Programming and Problem Solving in the Classroom Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Emma McMillan, Elizabeth Stevenson, Ewan Tempero and Paul Denny: Ladebug: An Online Tool to Help Novice Programmers Improve their Debugging Skills	Session 4C Educational Tools Room: CY017 Session Chair: Nearchos Paspallis J. Mark Pullen: Teaching Network Protocol Concepts in an Open Source Simulation Environment Yasin N. Silva, Anthony Nieuwenhuyse, Thomas G. Schenk and Alaura Symons: DBSnap++: Creating Data-driven Programs by Snapping Blocks Chase Geigle, Ismini Lourentzou, Hari Sundaram and ChengXiang Zhai: A Cloud-Based Virtual Lab for the Delivery of Scalable Hands-on Assignments for Practical Data Science Education
10:30-11:00	Posters Session 2 and coffee break Room: University Foyer Session Chairs: Mark Zarb and Stephan Krusche Lillian Cassel, Don Goelman, Paula Matuszek, Mary Angela Papalaskari, Michael Posner, Thomas Way, Darina Dicheva and Christo Dichev: Lessons Learned from Developing Advanced Topics for Broad Use Raymond Alavo, Raman Adaikkalavan and Hossein Hakimzadeh: iScheduler: Intelligent Scheduling System for Academic Institutions Saman Haqqi, Raja Sooriamurthi, Brian Macdonald, Cheryl Begandy, Judy Cameron, Berni Pirollo, Evan Becker, Jacqueline Choffo, Christopher Davis, Margaret Farrell, Jennifer Lundahl, Laura Marshall, Kyle Wyche and Aaron Zheng: Data Jam: Introducing High School Students to Data Science Gosia Migut, Dennis Koelma, Cees G. M. Snoek and Natasa Brouwer: Cheat Me Not: Automated Proctoring of Digital Exams on Bring-Your-Own-Device Ilya Musabirov and Alina Bakhitova: Code Sharing Networks of non-STEM Students. The Case of Data Science Minor Jorge Guerra and Felix Armando Fermin Perez: Inclusion of Blockchain in course of Distributed Systems at the School of Computer Science Mihaela Sabin: Implementing a Competency-Based Information Technology Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities Spyridon Doukakis, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Panayiotis Vlamos, Antonia Plerou and Panagiota Giannopoulou: Assessing Attention in Visual and Textual Programming Using Neuroeducation Approaches Julio Santisteban Pablo and Jennifer Santisteban-Muñoz: Psychometric Computational Thinking Test Alcwyn Parker and Michael James Scott: Crafting Engaging Programming Experiences for Young People in GLAM Spaces: The iOi-Sphere
11:00-12:30	Session 5Α Cyber-security Room: CY007 Session Chair: Eliana Stavrou Xenia Mountrouidou, Xiangyang Li and Quinn Burke: Cybersecurity in Liberal Arts General Education Curriculum John Aycock, Andrew Groeneveldt, Hayden Kroepfl and Tara Copplestone: Exercises for Teaching Reverse Engineering Valdemar Švábenský, Jan Vykopal, Milan Cermak and Martin Laštovička: Enhancing Cybersecurity Skills by Creating Serious Games	Session 5B Problem solving Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: Alexander Repenning Florent Bouchez Tichadou: Problem Solving to Teach Advanced Algorithms in Heterogeneous Groups Kay-Dennis Boom, Matt Bower, Amaël Arguel, Jens Siemon and Antonia Scholkmann: Relationship between Computational Thinking and a Measure of Intelligence as a General Problem-Solving Ability Zack Butler, Ivona Bezáková and Kimberly Fluet: Analyzing Rich Qualitative Data to Study Pencil-Puzzle-Based Assignments in CS1 and CS2	Session 5C Panel Room: CY017 Session Chair: Irene Polycarpou Stephan Krusche, Bruce Scharlau, Åsa Cajander and Janet Hughes: 50 Years of Software Engineering Challenges, Results and Opportunities in its Education
12:40-13:40	Session 6Α e-Learning and Distance Learning Room: CY007 Session Chair: Lillian (Boots) Cassel Fui Chin Hiew, Judy Sheard, Rajendran Parthiban and Esyin Chew: How Seamless Are Technology-Rich Learning Environments? The Voice of IT Educators Neil Smith, Mike Richards and Daniel G. Cabrero: Summer of Code: Assisting Distance-Learning Students with Open-Ended Programming Tasks	Session 6B Working Groups 2 Room: Lecture Theater 2; Session Chairs: Guido Rößling and Bruce Scharlau WG7: Taxonomizing Features and Methods for Identifying At-Risk Students in Computing Courses WG8: The Internet of Things in CS Education: Updating Curricula and Exploring Pedagogy WG9: Promoting the Adoption of Educational Innovations	Session 6C Tips, Techniques, and Courseware 2 Room: CY017 Session Chair: Roger McDermott Elizabeth Vidal and Ali Erkan: A Novel Introduction to File I/O using KML and Google Earth Stan Kurkovsky: Using LEGO to Teach Software Interfaces and Integration Raja Sooriamurthi: Introducing Big Data Analytics in High School and College
13:40-14:10	Collection of lunch packages
14:10-17:00	Excursions
20:00-23:00	Conference Banquet Ayia Anna Tavern Agia Anna Street 1, Agia Anna, Cyprus

	Wednesday 4 July 2018
09:00-10:30	Keynote: Prof. Maria Virvou A new era towards more engaging and human-like computer-based learning by combining personalisation and artificial intelligence techniques Lecture Theater 1
10:30-11:00	Posters Session 2 and coffee break Room: University Foyer Session Chairs: Mark Zarb and Stephan Krusche Lillian Cassel, Don Goelman, Paula Matuszek, Mary Angela Papalaskari, Michael Posner, Thomas Way, Darina Dicheva and Christo Dichev: Lessons Learned from Developing Advanced Topics for Broad Use Raymond Alavo, Raman Adaikkalavan and Hossein Hakimzadeh: iScheduler: Intelligent Scheduling System for Academic Institutions Saman Haqqi, Raja Sooriamurthi, Brian Macdonald, Cheryl Begandy, Judy Cameron, Berni Pirollo, Evan Becker, Jacqueline Choffo, Christopher Davis, Margaret Farrell, Jennifer Lundahl, Laura Marshall, Kyle Wyche and Aaron Zheng: Data Jam: Introducing High School Students to Data Science Gosia Migut, Dennis Koelma, Cees G. M. Snoek and Natasa Brouwer: Cheat Me Not: Automated Proctoring of Digital Exams on Bring-Your-Own-Device Ilya Musabirov and Alina Bakhitova: Code Sharing Networks of non-STEM Students. The Case of Data Science Minor Jorge Guerra and Felix Armando Fermin Perez: Inclusion of Blockchain in course of Distributed Systems at the School of Computer Science Mihaela Sabin: Implementing a Competency-Based Information Technology Curriculum: Challenges and Opportunities Spyridon Doukakis, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Panayiotis Vlamos, Antonia Plerou and Panagiota Giannopoulou: Assessing Attention in Visual and Textual Programming Using Neuroeducation Approaches Julio Santisteban Pablo and Jennifer Santisteban-Muñoz: Psychometric Computational Thinking Test Alcwyn Parker and Michael James Scott: Crafting Engaging Programming Experiences for Young People in GLAM Spaces: The iOi-Sphere
11:00-12:30	Session 7Α Gender, Diversity and Societal Aspects Room: CY017 Session Chair: Andrew Luxton-Reilly Brian Harrington, Shichong Peng, Xiaomeng Jin and Minhaz Khan: Gender, Confidence, and Mark Prediction in CS Examinations Anagha Kulkarni, Ilmi Yoon, Pleuni S. Pennings, Kazunori Okada and Carmen Domingo: Promoting Diversity in Computing Bill Cowan, Elodie Fourquet and Marta Kryven: Teaching the Societal Consequences of Computer Science: New Ideas for Increasing Student Involvement	Session 7B Alternative Approaches to CS Education Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: Anna Eckerdal Kiev Gama, Breno Gonçalves and Pedro Alessio: Hackathons in the Formal Learning Process (CANCELLED) Thanos Hatziapostolou, Dimitris Dranidis, Anna Sotiriadou, Petros Kefalas and Ioannis Nikolakopoulos: An Authentic Student Research Experience: Fostering Research Skills and Boosting the Employability Profile of Students Alyona Koulanova, Ary Maharaj, Brian Harrington, and Jessica Dere: Fit-Breaks: Incorporating Physical Activity Breaks in Introductory CS Lectures	Session 7C Industry Engagement Room: CY007 Session Chair: Simon (MOVED from 8C) Robert McCartney and Kate Sanders: ITiCSE Working Groups and Collaboration in the Computing Education Community Tullio Vardanega and Monica Fedeli: A Two-staged Capstone Project to Foster University-Business Dialogue Timo Hynninen, Jussi Kasurinen, Antti Knutas and Ossi Taipale: Guidelines for Software Testing Education Objectives from Industry Practices with a Constructive Alignment Approach
12:30-14:00	Lunch University Cafeteria
14:00-15:30	Session 8Α Motivation, Engagement, and Retention Room: CY017 Session Chair: Lecia Barker Michael Morgan, Matthew Butler, Neena Thota and Jane Sinclair: How CS Academics View Student Engagement Amanpreet Kapoor and Christina Gardner-McCune: Considerations for Switching: Exploring Factors behind CS Students’ Desire to Leave a CS Major Linda Ott, Briana Bettin and Leo Ureel: The Impact of Placement in Introductory Computer Science Courses on Student Persistence in a Computing Major	Session 8B Instructional Approaches Room: Lecture Theater 2 Session Chair: Michael Kölling Natalia Silvis-Cividjian: A Safety-Aware, Systems-Based Approach to Teaching Software Testing Cynthia Taylor, Jaime Spacco, David P. Bunde, Andrew Petersen, Soohyun Nam Liao and Leo Porter: A Multi-institution Exploration of Peer Instruction in Practice Soohyun Nam Liao, William G. Griswold and Leo Porter: Classroom Experience Report on Jigsaw Learning	Session 8C Collaborative Partnerships Room: CY007 Session Chair: Stan Kurkovsky Georgia M. Kapitsaki and Styliani Kleanthous Loizou: Bringing Together Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students in Software Engineering Team Project: Experiences and Lessons Nea Pirttinen, Vilma Kangas, Irene Nikkarinen, Henrik Nygren, Juho Leinonen and Arto Hellas: Crowdsourcing Programming Assignments with CrowdSorcerer (MOVED from 7C) Rafael Chanin, Afonso Sales, Leandro Pompermaier and Rafael Prikladnicki: Challenge Based Startup Learning: A Framework to Teach Software Startup
15:30-16:30	Closing Session Lecture Theater 1