Title :
Portugol IDE v3.x: A new environment to teach and learn computer programming
Author :
Manso, António ; Marques, Célio Gonçalo ; Dias, Pedro
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Technol. of Tomar, Polytech. of Tomar, Tomar, Portugal
Abstract :
Teaching of programming is crucial in every engineering course and particularly in computer courses. Students failure in this domain has led to the development of Portugol IDE, a tool for teaching/learning algorithms. This tool allows algorithms to be coded in mother tongue of portuguese students (portugol) or in flow diagrammatic language (flowchart) and its automatic execution. This paper presents generation 3.x of this tool and describes the advancements therein.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; programming; Portugol IDE v3.x; computer courses; computer programming; diagrammatic language; engineering course; learning algorithm; Algorithm design and analysis; Character generation; Computer graphics; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Encoding; Flowcharts; Programming profession; Shape; computer science education; flowchart; portugol; programming learning;
Conference_Titel :
Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6568-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6570-5
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492469
