Tools for teaching introductory programming: what works?

摘要: 1. SUMMARY In the past decade educators have developed a myriad of tools to help novices learn program. Different emerge as new features or combinations are employed. this panel we consider recent that garnered significant interest in computer science education community. These including narrative which support programming tell story (e.g., Alice [6], Jeroo [8]), visual construction programs through drag-and-drop interface JPie [3], Karel Universe), flow-model Raptor [1], Iconic Programmer [2], VisualLogic) construct connecting program elements represent order computation, specialized output realizations Lego Mindstorms [5], JES [7]) provide execution feedback nontextual ways, like multimedia kinesthetic robotics, and tiered language ProfessorJ [4], RoboLab) can use more sophisticated versions their expertise develops.