Flipped classroom in a CS1 course

摘要

In 2019 in Universidad ORT Uruguay a new curriculum for the Computer Science 1 (CS1) course was developed. We decided to create a more engaging course and to continue to improve student’s learning experience. We concentrated on a multi-paradigm approach and we switched from Java to JavaScript as the main language. The course included not only changes in the curriculum, but also in the pedagogy: we used blended and active learning, with focus on flipped classroom. Those strategies combine face-to-face instances with a strong content of online activities. In this paper, we describe our experience and initial results.