Programming for Non-Programmers
- 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.
Author details: | Rachel Or-Bach |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-82875 |
ISSN: | 1868-0844 |
ISSN: | 2191-1940 |
Title of parent work (English): | KEYCIT 2014 - Key Competencies in Informatics and ICT |
Subtitle (English): | Fostering Comprehension Capabilities by Employing a PRS |
Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2015/10/27 |
Tag: | Novice programmers; comprehension; personal response systems; tracing |
Issue: | 7 |
First page: | 335 |
Last Page: | 342 |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Informatik und Computational Science |
DDC classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Commentarii informaticae didacticae (CID) / CID (2015) 07 |
Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Commentarii informaticae didacticae (CID) / CID (2015) 07 / Short Papers | |
License (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |