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Title:
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PROGRAMMING EDUCATION WITH A BLOCKS-BASED VISUAL LANGUAGE FOR MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT |
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Author(s):
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Can Mihci, Nesrin Ozdener |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-02-3 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Programming education, app inventor, programming paradigms, mobile application development, programming blocks |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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149 |
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Last Page:
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156 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The aim of this study is to assess the impact upon academic success of the use of a reference block-based visual programming tool, namely the MIT App Inventor for Android, as an educational instrument for teaching object-oriented GUI-application development (CS2) concepts to students; who have previously completed a fundamental programming course that involved education of structured programming concepts using C# (CS1). It has also been studied whether impacts upon CS2 success of factors such as previous success in CS1 and prior high school experience in programming, have a relationship with the impact upon CS2 success from the use of the blocks-based instructional tool. The research; which has a post-test only quasi-experimental design; has a sample comprised of 101 Undergraduate students who are taking up the CS2 course at a Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies (CEIT). |
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