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Download full textJirí Vanícek; Václav Dobiáš; Václav Šimandl – Informatics in Education, 2023
The article describes a study carried out on pupils aged 12-13 with no prior programming experience. The study examined how they learn to use loops with a fixed number of repetitions. Pupils were given a set of programming tasks to solve, without any preparatory or accompanying instruction or explanation, in a block-based visual programming…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Misconceptions, Programming, Concept Formation
Václav Dobiáš; Václav Šimandl; Jirí Vanícek – Informatics in Education, 2024
The paper discusses an alternative method of assessing the difficulty of pupils' programming tasks to determine their age appropriateness. Building a program takes the form of its successive iterations. Thus, it is possible to monitor the number of times such a program was built by the solver. The variance of the number of program builds can be…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Computer Science Education, Programming, Task Analysis
