Elementary Patterns
and
Pattern-Based Mini-Labs

This page contains pointers to some of my very recent, very much under development, work on elementary patterns and using patterns to teach elementary programming ideas.

• A list of elementary patterns that would be useful for teaching introductory programming (some of which already exist) that came out of a brainstorming session with Viera Proulx and Richard Rasala of Northeastern University at the ITiCSE'99 conference in June 1999.

• Three patterns that I have started working on:
  • Constructing and Using Objects
  • Linear Indexed Data Structure
  • Repetition (see also the work by Astrachan and Wallingford: Loop Patterns)

• A few Mini-Labs that model one way of using elementary patterns in classroom teaching in CS 1.

See Also

• Report of the ITiCSE'99 Working Group on Resources for the Next Generation CS 1 Course
• The Elementary Patterns home page
• Loop Patterns, Astrachan and Wallingford
• Selection Patterns, Bergin

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