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Mihci, Can; Ozdener, Nesrin – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The aim of this study is to assess the impact upon academic success of the use of a reference block-based visual programming tool, namely the MIT App Inventor for Android, as an educational instrument for teaching object-oriented GUI-application development (CS2) concepts to students; who have previously completed a fundamental programming course…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Computer Software, Programming Languages
Nielsen, Jacob; Majgaard, Gunver; Sørensen, Erik – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
How can student self-assessment be used as a tool and become beneficial for both lecturers and students? We used a simple self-assessment tool for pre- and post-testing on a first-semester engineering course. The students graded their knowledge on human-computer interaction based on their ability to understand and explain specific concepts. The…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Reflection, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Djambong, Takam; Freiman, Viktor – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
While today's schools in several countries, like Canada, are about to bring back programming to their curricula, a new conceptual angle, namely one of computational thinking, draws attention of researchers. In order to understand the articulation between computational thinking tasks in one side, student's targeted skills, and the types of problems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Programming, Computation