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  1. Proxy-Based Programming: Making Programming more Accessible through Virtual, Physical and Social Embodiment

    Article • Digital Threats Research and Practice, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  2. Escaping the Turing Tar-Pit with AI Programming Blocks

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  3. Scaffolding Creative Programming Projects

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  4. Quantifying the Corona Effect

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  5. Understanding Programming better by using the wrong tool.

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  6. Computing Effect Sizes of a Science-first-then-didactics Computational Thinking Module for Preservice Elementary School Teachers

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  7. The Zones of Proximal Flow Tutorial

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  8. Is forcing future K-12 teachers to learn Computer Science a good model?

    Article • Communications of the ACM, April 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  9. Employing Retention of Flow to Improve Online Tutorials

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  10. Drops and Kinks

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  11. Retention of Flow

    Article • February 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  12. Piloting Computer Science Education Week in Mexico

    Article • February 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  13. Grounding Computational Thinking Skill Acquisition Through Contextualized Instruction

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  14. The consume - create spectrum

    Article • March 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  15. The zones of proximal flow

    Article • August 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  16. Programming goes back to school

    Article • Communications of the ACM, May 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning

  17. Recognizing computational thinking patterns

    Article • March 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Alexander Repenning