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

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

170

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2000. IWALT 2000. Proceedings. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Palmerston North

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0653-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWALT.2000.890598

Filename

890598