Teaching Programming and Design-by-Contract

Daniel de Carvalho, Jooyoung Lee, Adil Khan, Manuel Mazzara, Mansur Khazeev, Ruslan Mustafin, Alexandr Naumchev, Victor Rivera

Abstract: This paper summarizes the experience of teaching an introductory course to programming by using a correctness by construction approach at Innopolis University, Russian Federation. In this paper we claim that division in beginner and advanced groups improves the learning outcomes, present the discussion and the data that support the claim.