TY  - JOUR
A1  - Or-Bach, Rachel
T1  - Programming for Non-Programmers
BT  - Fostering Comprehension Capabilities by Employing a PRS
JF  - KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT
N2  - The study reported in this paper involved the employment
of specific in-class exercises using a Personal Response System (PRS).
These exercises were designed with two goals: to enhance students’
capabilities of tracing a given code and of explaining a given code in
natural language with some abstraction. The paper presents evidence
from the actual use of the PRS along with students’ subjective impressions
regarding both the use of the PRS and the special exercises. The
conclusions from the findings are followed with a short discussion on
benefits of PRS-based mental processing exercises for learning programming
and beyond.
KW  - Novice programmers
KW  - comprehension
KW  - tracing
KW  - personal response systems
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82875
SN  - 1868-0844
SN  - 2191-1940
IS  - 7
SP  - 335
EP  - 342
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -