Title :
Writing, reading, watching: a task-based analysis and review of learners´ programming environments
Author :
Wright, Tim ; Cockburn, Andy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand
Abstract :
The paper identifies three fundamental learning activities in the development of literary skills-writing, reading, and watching and describes the potential benefits of supporting these activities when learning to program computers. We analyse the support for writing, reading and watching provided by current educational programming environments and show that no current systems offer comprehensive and integrated support for the three activities. In particular, support for watching the relationship between the program code and the resultant program behaviour is poor
Keywords :
computer science education; programming environments; task analysis; teaching; current systems; educational programming environments; integrated support; learner programming environments; learning activities; literary skills writing; program behaviour; program code; task based analysis; Collaborative work; Computer applications; Computer science; Home appliances; Humans; Ovens; Programming environments; Programming profession; Video recording; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000. IWALT 2000. Proceedings. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Palmerston North
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0653-4
DOI :
10.1109/IWALT.2000.890598
