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Kolling, Michael; McKay, Fraser – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
The past few years has seen a proliferation of novice programming tools. The availability of a large number of systems has made it difficult for many users to choose among them. Even for education researchers, comparing the relative quality of these tools, or judging their respective suitability for a given context, is hard in many instances. For…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Programming, Programming Languages, Computer Software
Landa, Lev N. – Educational Technology, 1998
After reviewing 50 educational software titles produced by 21 companies to assess how thinking and thinking skills were developed, the author found most had similar methodological drawbacks. Describes the algo-heuristic methodological position and outlines drawbacks of current software. (PEN)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation