SPLASH 2021
Sun 17 - Fri 22 October 2021 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wed 20 Oct 2021 11:15 - 11:30 at Zurich E - Session 1

First-year students benefit from robotics-based programming exercises by learning how to use sensors to gain information on the (changing) world surrounding the robot, how to model this information using data structures, and how to design algorithms for performing meaningful activities. Robotics-based exercises are naturally experiential and team-based and provide among the most memorable teachable moments of first-year programming courses. We summarize the pedagogical challenges that robotics-based exercises face, even under ideal circumstances, and how a university responded to these challenges over 15 consecutive years. We report on the additional challenges faced in late 2020 at the same university as a result of the COVID pandemic, and how the course staff addressed these challenges using programming language implementation and network tools. The crucial components were (1) a custom-built web-based development environment with collaborative features including a built-in compiler, (2) a portable virtual machine, (3) collaborative editing, (4) open source protocols, and (5) peer-to-peer teleconferencing software. We report on the lessons learnt and how to further improve the resilience of robotics-based programming exercises.

Wed 20 Oct

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10:50 - 12:10
Session 1SPLASH-E at Zurich E
10:50
10m
Talk
Chairs' Welcome
SPLASH-E
Charlie Curtsinger Grinnell College, Tien N. Nguyen University of Texas at Dallas
11:00
15m
Talk
Teaching DevOps: A Tale of Two Universities
SPLASH-E
Richard Hobeck TU Berlin, Ingo Weber TU Berlin, Len Bass Carnegie Mellon University, Hasan Yasar Carnegie Mellon University
DOI
11:15
15m
Talk
Ruggedizing CS1 Robotics: Tools and Approaches for Online Teaching
SPLASH-E
Boyd Anderson National University of Singapore, Martin Henz National University of Singapore, Hao-Wei Tee National University of Singapore
DOI
11:30
15m
Talk
“You Have Said Too Much”: Java-Like Verbosity Anti-patterns in Python Codebases
SPLASH-E
Yuzhi Ma Virginia Tech, Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech
DOI
11:45
20m
Talk
Reframing the Liskov Substitution Principle through the Lens of Testing
SPLASH-E
Elisa Baniassad University of British Columbia, Alexander J. Summers University of British Columbia
DOI