This article stresses the need for planning a proper programme of orientation for new secondary school students who are being initiated into the institution

The learning difficulties of Object-Oriented Programming can be one of the causes of failure in college students, which can even lead to student dropout. This article has the purpose of analyzing the main learning difficulties ...

An evolutionary process that is currently taking place in the software industry is the shift from developing applications from scratch to discovering and assembling services published across the Internet. Service-Oriented ...

When checking students’ source codes, teachers tend to overlook some errors. This work introduces Soploon, a tool that automatically detects novice programmer errors. By using this tool, teachers can reduce the number of ...

Higher education is facing, worldwide, a context of greater competition for students. It is a new environment of competition for the student, based both on reasons of supply (offer available to the student), and demand ...

This paper reports on a corpus-based study that investigated the use of frequency adverbs in students' posts in a goal-oriented virtual forum. The participants in the study were undergraduate students enrolled in two ...