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The Effectiveness Of Codesters In Teaching Basic Computer Science Topics, Antonio Pedro Moctezuma
The Effectiveness Of Codesters In Teaching Basic Computer Science Topics, Antonio Pedro Moctezuma
Theses and Dissertations
Founded in 2014, Codesters is a visual programming environment (VPE) like the popular Scratch and Alice. Its goal is to teach middle school and older student’s computer programming. Unlike its predecessors, users of Codesters drag and drop actual Python code instead of blocks and can edit the code themselves. Codesters has also developed modules that integrate coding lessons into the VPE.
In this study, we consider the Codesters Python 1 module and investigate its effectiveness in teaching the basic coding concepts of variables, loops and conditionals. During Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, we ran a coding class for eighth graders …
The Effectiveness Of Codesters In Teaching Basic Computer Science Topics, Antonio Pedro Moctezuma
The Effectiveness Of Codesters In Teaching Basic Computer Science Topics, Antonio Pedro Moctezuma
Theses and Dissertations
Founded in 2014, Codesters is a visual programming environment (VPE) like the popular Scratch and Alice. Its goal is to teach middle school and older student’s computer programming. Unlike its predecessors, users of Codesters drag and drop actual Python code instead of blocks and can edit the code themselves. Codesters has also developed modules that integrate coding lessons into the VPE.
In this study, we consider the Codesters Python 1 module and investigate its effectiveness in teaching the basic coding concepts of variables, loops and conditionals. During Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, we ran a coding class for eighth graders …