Title :
Conceptual graphs as a visual programming language for teaching programming
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA
Abstract :
We believe that Conceptual Graphs fills a category of visual programming languages for those novice programmers who desire to learn programming and who do not want or need a game-based system because Conceptual Graphs map to programming language concepts.
Keywords :
computer science education; programming languages; teaching; visual programming; conceptual graphs; novice programmers; programming teaching; visual programming language; Bridges; Computer languages; Computer science; Education; Feedback; Functional programming; Humans; Joining processes; Logic programming; Programming profession;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2009. VL/HCC 2009. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Corvallis, OR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4876-0
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295242