The usefulness of P-CUBE as a programming education tool for programming beginners

P-CUBE is a block type programming tool for begginers including visually impaired. This paper describes a study conducted on the usefulness of P-CUBE as an education tool for a programming begginer. We conducted an experiment for comparing P-CUBE and a conventional code type programming soft for a mobile robot. We record the times of referencing the manual of programming and the time required for programming exercise during the experiment. We get subjective assessment from subjects at the end of the experiment. The result showed that P-CUBE is useful as a programming education tool for beginners.