Browsing School of Education (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Madrid Regional Government"
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The effects of a visual execution environment and makey makey on primary school children learning introductory programming concepts
Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Pérez-Marin, Diana; Pizarro, Celeste; Connolly, Cornelia (IEEE, 2020-12-01)The interest of children in learning to program computers has increased dramatically in recent years with the adaptation of new programming languages such as Scratch or game-based approaches. That being so, it is still ... -
A guided scratch visual execution environment to introduce programming concepts to CS1 students
Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia; Palacios-Alonso, Daniel; Borrás-Gené, Oriol (MDPI, 2021-09-17)First-year computer science (CS1) university students traditionally have difficulties understanding how to program. This paper describes research introducing CS1 students to programming concepts using a Scratch programming ...