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Lihui Sun; Zhen Guo; Danhua Zhou – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Coding ability has become an essential digital skill for young children. The graphical programming environment is valuable carrier for cultivating children's coding ability. The purpose of this study is to develop a coding ability test for children, to conduct a graphic coding intervention, and to further explore the impact of multiple factors on…
Descriptors: Programming, Skill Development, Intervention, Student Experience
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Kunkle, Wanda M.; Allen, Robert B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Learning to program, especially in the object-oriented paradigm, is a difficult undertaking for many students. As a result, computing educators have tried a variety of instructional methods to assist beginning programmers. These include developing approaches geared specifically toward novices and experimenting with different introductory…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Programming, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
Kunkle, Wanda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many students experience difficulties learning to program. They find learning to program in the object-oriented paradigm particularly challenging. As a result, computing educators have tried a variety of instructional methods to assist beginning programmers. These include developing approaches geared specifically toward novices and experimenting…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Language of Instruction, Academic Achievement