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Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association

SACLA 2016: ICT Education pp 43–50Cite as

Assessing Programming by Written Examinations

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Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 642))

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This position paper discusses the assessment of programming courses by means of written examinations. It describes the various learning outcomes of programming that should be covered, and then discusses how well they can be covered in a written examination.

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  1. School of Computing, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Ken Halland

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Stefan Gruner

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Halland, K. (2016). Assessing Programming by Written Examinations. In: Gruner, S. (eds) ICT Education. SACLA 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47680-3_4

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