A visual programming environment for introducing distributed computing to secondary education

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Broll ◽  
Ákos Lédeczi ◽  
Hamid Zare ◽  
Dung Nguyen Do ◽  
János Sallai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
Programming Environment

CREATING GROUP PROJECTS IN SCRATCH 3.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
A. S. Putina
Keyword(s):  
Group Work ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Group Projects ◽  
Group Work In Education

The article discusses the problems of organizing group work in education, in particular, group work in the Scratch visual programming environment, where it is possible to use tools that help in teamwork — Backpack, Remix, Scratch Studio. An example of creating a project by a group of students is given.

A Node-Style Visual Programming Environment for the nuXmv Model Checker

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayato Naito ◽  
Tomoyuki Yokogawa ◽  
Nao Igawa ◽  
Sousuke Amasaki ◽  
Hirohisa Aman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Programming ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Model Checker

scholarly journals Hybrid Java: The creation of a Hybrid Programming Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Noone ◽  
Aidan Mooney ◽  
Keith Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Visual Programming ◽  
First Year ◽  
Programming Environment ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
Hybrid Programming ◽  
Java Language ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Visual Programming Language

This article details the creation of a hybrid computer programming environment combining the power of the text-based Java language with the visual features of the Snap! language. It has been well documented that there exists a gap in the education of computing students in their mid-to-late teenage years, where perhaps visual programming languages are no longer suitable and textual programming languages may involve too steep of a learning curve. There is an increasing need for programming environments that combine the benefits of both languages into one. Snap! is a visual programming language which employs “blocks” to allow users to build programs, similar to the functionality offered by Scratch. One added benefit of Snap! is that it offers the ability to create one’s own blocks and extend the functionality of those blocks to create more complex and powerful programs. This will be utilised to create the Hybrid Java environment. The development of this tool will be detailed in the article, along with the motivation and use cases for it. Initial testing conducted will be discussed including one phase that gathered feedback from a pool of 174 first year Computer Science students. These participants were given instructions to work with the hybrid programming language and evaluate their experience of using it. The analysis of the findings along with future improvements to the language will also be presented.

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