Fabio Ferreira, Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio and Sofia Aparicio. 2017. Learning programming: A continuance model, 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Lisbon, Portugal:IEEE

Martinha Piteira and Carlos J. Costa . 2017. Gamificação: Framework Concetual para Cursos Online de Aprendizagem da Programação. In 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.

Ricardo Pereira, Carlos J. Costa, and Joao Tiago Aparicio. 2017 . Gamification to support programming learning. In 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI).  Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.

Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio, and Tiago Caldeira. 2014. Teaching Programming through Open Source Robotics.  Workshop on Educational Robotics (WEBOB), Joao Pessoa, Brazil, July 25, 2014

Martinha Piteira and Carlos Costa. 2013. Learning computer programming: study of difficulties in learning programming. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication (ISDOC ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 75-80.

Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio, and Carlos Cordeiro. 2012. Web-Based graphic environment to support programming in the beginning learning process. In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC’12), Marc Herrlich, Rainer Malaka, and Maic Masuch (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 413-416.

Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio, and Carlos Cordeiro. 2012. A solution to support student learning of programming. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 25-29.

Martinha Piteira, Carlos Costa, and Samir R. Haddad. 2012. Educational computer programming tools. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 57-60.

Martinha Piteira and Carlos Costa. 2012. Computer programming and novice programmers. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Systems and Design of Communication (ISDOC ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 51-53.

Martinha Piteira and Samir R. Haddad. 2011. Innovate in your program computer class: an approach based on a serious game. In Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 49-54

Martinha Piteira. 2010. Learning computer programming using web games. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 41-42.

Robert Pierce and Manuela Aparício. 2010. Resources to support computer programming learning and computer science problem solving. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 35-40.

Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio, and Robert Pierce. 2009. Evaluating information sources for computer programming learning and problem solving. In Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science (ACS’09), Roberto Revetria, Valeri Mladenov, and Nikos Mastorakis (Eds.). World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA, 218-223.