Programming literacy is crucial for current and future generations of young learners, irrespective of their career paths. Programming education is thus essential, making teaching methods and tools to be tailored to the target audience. In this context, ...

This work presents an experimental analysis of first-grade students' block-based programming trajectories. These trajectories consist of edit-level program snapshots that capture learners' problem-solving processes in a navigational microworld. Our ...

Block-based programming has been used as an introductory gateway to programming thanks to its simpler, visual approach for composing code. This work re-imagines this style of coding through the mobile-first framework DartBlock, which is intended to be ...

There has been significant progress in increasing the access to computing education for many K-12 students, including states adopting computer science (CS) standards and/or requiring CS courses. This includes the creation of block-based programming ...

How to measure students' Computational Problem-Solving (CPS) competencies is an ongoing research topic. Prevalent approaches vary by measurement tools (e.g., interactive programming, multiple-choice tests, or programming-independent tests) and task types ...

Affective state, referring to an individual's feeling, can impact students' confidence and retention in CS, particularly for novice programmers. However, little research has been conducted to examine how moments that occur during programming impact ...

This year's Snap! 9 release represents 10 years since Snap! 4.0 was initially released as a web application. Version 9 includes hundreds of new features, focused on providing students and teachers with new cloud tools, continued development of tools for ...

Programming is a useful medium for artists and humanities majors. Learning to program provides a useful set of skills and concepts for critical computing scholars and conversational programmers. Introductory computing classes (at both secondary and post-...

The workshop will give educators an introduction to graphical data analysis techniques for exploring, summarizing, and effectively communicating data using Visual Blocks (Blockly) and Jupiter Notebooks. Participants will gain skills to create and ...

While recursion is a fundamental technique in computer programming, it is challenging for novices, for example since it requires tracing non-linear and hierarchical sequences of execution. Though algorithm visualizations and visual programming may be ...

In computing classrooms, building an open-ended programming project engages students in the process of designing and implementing an idea of their own choice. An explicit planning process has been shown to help students build more complex and ambitious ...

Computer science related topics are increasingly introduced at elementary school level, aiming not only to establish basic knowledge, but also to foster affective aspects such as motivation or self-efficacy. While corrective feedback is helpful to ...

The block-based programming paradigm has gained popularity across various application areas, including programming education, physical computing, and creative arts and media. While initially targeting young learners, environments such as Scratch have ...

Recent years have seen growing awareness of the potential digital storytelling brings to creating engaging K-12 learning experiences. By fostering students’ interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, digital storytelling holds great promise for ...

Block-based programming effectively supports processes based on the syntactic and conceptual knowledge of programming; however, its effectiveness is limited to processes that require strategic knowledge. To resolve the problem, we present Sketchnote, ...

Programming and computational thinking (CT) have become important topics in elementary education and are being implemented by national curricula, extracurricular programs, and informal learning environments. Most related research and implementation is ...

Background and Context: Open-ended programming projects encourage novice students to choose and pursue projects based on their own ideas and interests, and are widely used in many introductory programming courses. However, novice programmers encounter ...

Knowledge of programming and computing is becoming increasingly valuable in today's world, and thus it is crucial that students from all backgrounds have the opportunity to learn. As the teaching of computing at high-school becomes more common, there is ...

Scratch is a hugely popular block-based programming environment that is often used in educational settings, and has therefore recently also become a focus for research on programming education. Scratch provides dedicated teacher accounts that make it ...

Introducing computational thinking in primary school curricula implies that teachers have to prepare appropriate lesson material. Typically this includes creating programming tasks, which may overwhelm primary school teachers with lacking programming ...