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SplashKit: a development framework for motivating and engaging students in introductory programming

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posted on 2024-06-18, 13:42 authored by J Renzella, Alex CummaudoAlex Cummaudo, Andrew CainAndrew Cain, J Grundy, J Meyers
Learning to program is known to be challenging for many students. Upon entry, students often have poor perceptions of their capabilities with some anxiety around the challenges they expect to face in learning to code. Lowering the barriers to entry will help ease students into programming and enable a broader range of student to continue programming. SplashKit is an educationally focused development framework designed to aid the teaching of programming by empowering students to create interesting and dynamic programs from their first programming tasks. This paper explores how SplashKit can be used in tertiary education to underpin a range of introductory programming approaches.

History

Pagination

40-47

Location

Wollongong, N.S.W.

Start date

2018-12-04

End date

2018-12-07

ISBN-13

9781538665220

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2018, IEEE

Editor/Contributor(s)

Lee MJW, Nikolic S, Ros M, Shen J, Lei LCU, Wong GKW, Venkatarayalu N

Title of proceedings

IEEE TALE 2018 : Engineering next-generation learning : Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering

Event

IEEE Education Society. Conference (2018 : Wollongong, N.S.W.)

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Place of publication

Piscataway, N.J.

Series

IEEE Education Society Conference