DocumentCode
1893410
Title
Applying cognitive load theory to generate effective programming tutorials
Author
Harms, Kyle J.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Washington Univ. in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
15-19 Sept. 2013
Firstpage
179
Lastpage
180
Abstract
In this paper, the author describe our prior work on how automatically generating walk-through tutorials helps novice programmers learn new programming concepts found in unfamiliar code. Following this, the author introduce his proposal to use Cognitive Load Theory to improve the effectiveness of learning new programming concepts from generated tutorials. To accomplish this, the author propose automatically generating personalized tutorials based on a user´s programming expertise.
Keywords
cognition; computer science education; programming; cognitive load theory; programming concepts learning; programming tutorials; walk-through tutorial generation; Current measurement; Educational institutions; Load modeling; Programming environments; Programming profession; Tutorials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2013 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
ISSN
1943-6092
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLHCC.2013.6645274
Filename
6645274
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