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Direct linkGorman, Garry; McKelvey, Nigel; Dowling, Thomas C. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2022
This paper describes a growth mind-set intervention with Junior Cycle Coding students in a disadvantaged school in Ireland. This intervention builds on the work of O'Rourke et al. (2016) and applies findings to a computer programming setting where gamification is used to incentivise growth mind-set behaviour in students learning to code. Data…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Coding, Computer Science Education, Disadvantaged Schools
Download full textCostelloe, Eileen; Sherry, Elisabeth; Magee, Patricia – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
Teaching programming to novices has proved challenging for both learner and lecturer due to the abstraction and complexity of the subject matter. The work described in this paper is part of an EU funded Minerva project called TUPULO (Teaching Undergraduate Programming Using Learning Objects) which aims to address the challenges faced by novice…
Descriptors: Programming, Undergraduate Study, Resource Units, Constructivism (Learning)
