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Supporting Programming and Learning-to-Program with an IntegratedCAD and Scaffolding Workbench*.
- Source :
- Interactive Learning Environments; Mar1998, Vol. 6 Issue 1/2, p143, 37p
- Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- Programming is a complex cognitive task for students, because of thedifficulty of finding the appropriate elements (the “decomposition”problem) and integrating them correctly into a whole (the “composition”problem). Programming is also hard to learn, because so much of the thinkingbehind a program is implicit and the process of programming is long and complicated.Our approach is to integrate a computer-aided design tool (CAD) with scaffoldingto create a single, cohesive, and coherent workbench for the entire process.Our workbench is called the GPCeditor. We have evaluated its use by high-schoolstudents. Our results suggest that students program well in the GPCeditor,they learn good programming practices, and that the learning is occurringthrough use of the GPCeditor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMPUTER-aided design
COMPUTER programming
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10494820
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 5309315
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1076/ilee.6.1.143.3609