Volume 148 - Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference

(ACE 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, January 2014

This volume contains papers presented at the Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, January 2014. Where indicated, the paper is available for download in PDF or Postscript format.

The series is published by, and most papers are copyright of, the Australian Computer Society Inc. Reproduction for academic research and not-for-profit purposes is granted provided the copyright notice on the first page of each paper is included.

Edited by Jacqueline Whalley and Daryl D'Souza. Published January 2014. ISBN-13 978-1-921770-31-9. ISSN 1445-1336. 19 papers, xv+163 pages. BiBTeX file for Volume. Complete Volume.

Acceptance Rate Information. The full papers in this volume were peer refereed, in full, by an international programme committee. The acceptance rate was 47.5% (19 from 40).

Volume Citation

Papers Included in the Volume

Falkner, K., Vivian, R. and Falkner, N. (2014). The Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum: Challenge and Opportunity. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 3-12.
von Konsky, B., Miller, C. and Jones, A. (2014). Visualising Career Progression for ICT Professionals and the implications for ICT Curriculum Design in Higher Education. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 13-20.
Herbert, N., De Salas, K., Lewis, I., Dermoudy, J. and Ellis, L. (2014). ICT Curriculum and Course Structure: the Great Balancing Act. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 21-30.
Lopez, M. and Lopez, D. (2014). Student and staff expectations of NZQA levels. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 31-39.
Teague, D. and Lister, R. (2014). Longitudinal Think Aloud Study of a Novice Programmer. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 41-50.
Heinsen Egan, M. and McDonald, C. (2014). Program visualization and explanation for novice C programmers. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 51-57.
Skudder, B. and Luxton-Reilly, A. (2014). Worked Examples in Computer Science. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 59-64.
Teague, D. and Lister, R. (2014). Manifestations of Preoperational Reasoning on Similar Programming Tasks. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 65-74.
Simon, and Cornforth, D. (2014). Teaching Mobile Apps for Windows Devices Using TouchDevelop. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 75-82.
Trabelsi, Z. and Mustafa, U. (2014). A Web-based Firewall Simulator Tool for Information Security Education. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 83-90.
McDonald, Chris (2014). A Multi-tier Client-Server Project Employing Mobile Clients. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 91-96.
Schmidt, A., Kimmig, D., Bittner, K. and Dickerhof, M. (2014). Teaching Model-Driven Software Development: Revealing the 'Great Miracle' of Code Generation to Students. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 97-104.
Whalley, J. and Kasto, N. (2014). How difficult are novice code writing tasks? A software metrics approach. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 105-112.
Sheard, J., Simon, Dermoudy, J., D'Souza, D., Hu, M. and Parsons, D. (2014). Benchmarking a set of exam questions for introductory programming. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 113-121.
Putro, I. H., Carbone, A. and Sheard, J. (2014). Developing A Framework to Assess Students' Contributions during Wiki Construction. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 123-131.
Kasto, N., Whalley, J., Philpott, A. and Whalley, D. (2014). Solution Spaces. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 133-137.
Mason, R. and Cooper, G. (2014). Introductory Programming Courses in Australia and New Zealand in 2013 - trends and reasons. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 139-147.
Lang, C., Craig, A. and Casey, G. (2014). Unblocking the pipeline by providing a compelling computing experience in secondary schools: are the teachers ready?. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 149-158.
Hoda, R. and Andreae, P. (2014). It's Not Them, It's Us! Why Computer Science Fails to Impress Many First Years. In Proc. Sixteenth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2014), Auckland, New Zealand. CRPIT, 148. Whalley, J. and D'Souza, D. Eds., ACS. 159-162.

Papers listed: 19