Decoding Source Code Comprehension: Bottlenecks Experienced by Senior Computer Science Students

Ability Level of Git Hub Amongst Computer Science Students

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b1028.0782s719 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2S7) ◽

pp. 300-303

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Control Systems ◽

Source Code ◽

Survey Result ◽

Version Control ◽

Source Control ◽

Science Students ◽

Web Based ◽

Control Management

Source code management is one of the most vital tools in modern software development. Moreover, the open source initiative requires a method to distribute their code effectively. GitHub is one of the most popular web-based version control systems that offers version control and source code management. Therefore, it is important to introduce GitHub as early as possible to computer science students. Our objective is to observe the use of GitHub as a source code management system. We perform a survey targeted at the students and collected 298 answers. We also perform a short interview amongst the lecturer regarding their familiarity with GitHub and source control management in general. The survey result shows that while GitHub is quite popular amongst the student, the knowledge and experience of using it is considerably low. Similar responses were received from the lecturer that argues that the role of GitHub in classroom is redundant. The details of the result are thoroughly discussed in this paper

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Tidal Flow: A Fast and Teachable Maximum Flow Algorithm

OLYMPIADS IN INFORMATICS ◽

10.15388/ioi.2018.03 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 25-41

Author(s):

Matthew C. FONTAINE

Keyword(s):

Computer Science ◽

Tidal Flow ◽

Maximum Flow ◽

Efficient Algorithms ◽

Science Students ◽

Flow Algorithm ◽

Maximum Flows

Among the most interesting problems in competitive programming involve maximum flows. However, efficient algorithms for solving these problems are often difficult for students to understand at an intuitive level. One reason for this difficulty may be a lack of suitable metaphors relating these algorithms to concepts that the students already understand. This paper introduces a novel maximum flow algorithm, Tidal Flow, that is designed to be intuitive to undergraduate andpre-university computer science students.

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