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@Article{Nievergelt:1973:AIC,
  author =       "Jurg Nievergelt and Edward M. Reingold",
  title =        "Automating introductory computer science courses",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "5",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "24--25",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1973",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953053.808070",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:45 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "This paper describes a project we have recently
                 started for automating introductory computer science
                 courses. Why should these courses be automated? At the
                 University of Illinois there are currently about 2000
                 students per semester taking various introductory
                 programming courses: engineers, social scientists,
                 teachers, physical scientists, computer science majors,
                 etc., each group having its own particular needs. These
                 courses are taught in sections of about 100 students
                 each, with an additional hour of discussion in groups
                 of about 20 students. In our experience it is very
                 difficult to organize these courses in such a way that
                 students both learn something and are happy with the
                 material presented. The main difficulty seems to come
                 from the fact that a beginning programmer needs a lot
                 of individual help, and this cannot be provided in
                 large sections. We are now convinced that these courses
                 cannot be improved within the current setup, and since
                 enrollments in these courses are increasing, the
                 situation is bound to grow worse unless something new
                 is tried. We assume that the situation we have
                 described is typical of many large universities.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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