Title :
An Integrated Approach to Build Programming Competencies through Spoken Tutorial Workshops
Author :
Eranki, Kiran L. N. ; Moudgalya, Kannan M.
Author_Institution :
IDP Educ. Technol., IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
Abstract :
Visualization tools along with spoken tutorials to build comprehension and debugging skills of novice programmers. And also, evaluates the self-learning approach to teach programming skills to the students. Qualitative and Quantitative studies were conducted using spoken tutorial workshops on Java and C++ courses. Results of the study have shown improvement in programming skills and conceptual understanding when subjected to program visualization along with spoken tutorials.
Keywords :
C++ language; Java; computer science education; educational courses; program debugging; program visualisation; C++ course; Java; debugging skills; novice programmer; program visualization; programming competency; programming skills; self-learning approach; spoken tutorial workshops; visualization tools; Cognitive science; Conferences; Java; Programming profession; Tutorials; Visualization; comprehension; debugging; programming; spoken-tutorial; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2013 IEEE Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kharagpur
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2013.15