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Seongyune Choi; Hyeoncheol Kim – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Attention to programming education from K-12 to higher education has been growing with the aim of fostering students' programming ability. This ability involves employing appropriate algorithms and computer codes to solve problems and can be enhanced through practical learning. However, in a formal educational setting, it is challenging to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Freshmen, Programming, Artificial Intelligence
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Clarke-Midura, Jody; Sun, Chongning; Pantic, Katarina; Poole, Frederick J.; Allan, Vicki – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
Our work is situated in research on Computer Science (CS) learning in informal learning environments and literature on the factors that influence girls to enter CS. In this article, we outline design choices around the creation of a summer programming camp for middle school youth. In addition, we describe a near-peer mentoring model we used that…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Educational Environment, Females, Middle School Students
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Uysal, Murat Pasa – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2014
Different methods, strategies, or tools have been proposed for teaching Object Oriented Programming (OOP). However, it is still difficult to introduce OOP to novice learners. The problem may be not only adopting a method or language, but also use of an appropriate integrated development environment (IDE). Therefore, the focus should be on the…
Descriptors: Programming, Program Evaluation, College Students, Educational Environment
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Mather, Richard – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2015
This paper explores the application of canonical gradient analysis to evaluate and visualize student performance and acceptance of a learning system platform. The subject of evaluation is a first year BSc module for computer programming. This uses "Ceebot," an animated and immersive game-like development environment. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Program Evaluation, Visualization, Programming
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Wang, Shiang-Kwei – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2008
Literature suggests that developing a community of learners is the key to a successful online-learning experience. In this study, the instructor of a multimedia authoring course adopted a synchronous communication tool (Yahoo Messenger) to interact with learners orally on a weekly basis and, thereby, to establish a sense among the learners that…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning, Online Courses