Resources for Control Traces: ITiCSE 2025

To facilitate the reproducibility of our work, we have made available a comprehensive set of resources.

Simplified Python: Syntax and Control Transfer Functions

• A guide for instructors (and learners)

Lecture Slides

• Sequential and Conditional Control-Flow
• Iterative and Procedural Control-Flow

Example Programs and Their Corresponding Control-Flow Artefacts

• Examples

Practice Questions for Students

• Practice Worksheet

Four Sets of Question Papers

• Set 1
• Set 2
• Set 3
• Set 4

Four Sets of Answer Keys

• Set 1
• Set 2
• Set 3
• Set 4

Grading Rubric

• Grading rubric

Data Collected

• Student scores across all artefacts and control structures
• Student mistakes in artefact 2 (Control Transfer Functions)