From Marco to Maria: Ten Years of the Computing Education Practice Conference
There has been a relentless march towards research-focussed papers in Computing Education conferences, influenced by Valentine’s pejorative “Marco Polo” characterisation of practice papers. We argue that there is an important place for practice-focussed papers when presented in a format which provides careful contextual description, as exemplified by the work of seventeenth century ecologist Maria Sibyella Merian.
Authors
- Duncan Hull (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2387-503X)
- Mark Zarb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1768-4763)
- Rosanne English (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6475-2899)
- Sally Fincher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7347-108X)
- Steven Bradley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5939-5620)
Institutions
- University of Strathclyde (GB)
- Durham University (GB)
- University of Kent (GB)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Robert Gordon University (GB)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3769994.3770003
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Teaching and Learning Programming
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.39