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An Experience with and Reflections on Live Coding with Active Learning

Author Anders Schlichtkrull

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Anders Schlichtkrull
  • Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark

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I thank my colleagues Kurt Nørmark and Jens Myrup Pedersen for providing me inspiration and ideas for changing the course and also for comments on an earlier version of this text. I thank my colleagues Johannes Bjerva, Søren Qvist Eliasen, Andrés Masegosa, David Maya-Drysdale and René Rydhof Hansen for discussions. I thank Aalborg University for giving me the opportunity to do this experiment as part of its University Pedagogical Program.

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Anders Schlichtkrull. An Experience with and Reflections on Live Coding with Active Learning. In 4th International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 112, pp. 14:1-14:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2023.14

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In this paper I report and reflect on a concrete experience with changing an introductory programming course from being based on "classical lectures" to being based on live coding with active learning. The experiment is built on learnings found in the literature and the pedagogical theories of scaffolding, think-pair-share and teaching as facilitation of learning. I reflect on the students' reaction to the experiment, the difficulty of the active learning, how to keep time, coverage of learning objectives, the degree of improvisation and student involvement. The experiment was well received by the students, and I report also on the feedback. My hope is that educators who want to introduce live coding with active learning will be able to draw inspiration from my preparation of, execution of and reflections on the experiment.

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  • Applied computing → Education
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  • Live coding
  • active learning
  • teaching programming

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