Programming Languages in Education

The Search for an Easy Start

Patrick Mendelsohn, T.R.G. Green, P. Brna

Zu finden in: Psychology of Programming (Seite 175 bis 200), 1990

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Abstracts

We first discuss educational objectives in teaching programming, using Logo research as a vehicle to report on versions of the 'transfer of competence' hypothesis. This hypothesis has received limited support in a detailed sense, but not in its original more grandiose conception of programming as a 'mental gymnasium'.
Difficulties in learning quickly abnegate educational objectives, so we next turn to Prolog, which originally promised to be easy to learn since it reduces the amount of program control that the programmer needs to define, but which turned out to be very prone to serious misconceptions. Recent work suggests that Prolog difficulties may be caused by an inability to set the program working.
Does the remedy therefore lie in starting learners on programmable devices that are low level, concrete and highly visible? Research on this line has brought out another problem: learners find the 'programming plans' hard to master.
Finally, we sketch a project designed to teach standard procedural programming via 'natural plans'. Our conclusions stress pragmatic approaches with much attention to ease of use, avoiding taking 'economy' and 'elegance' as virtues in their own right.

From Patrick Mendelsohn, T.R.G. Green, P. Brna im Buch Psychology of Programming (1990) in the text Programming Languages in Education

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Douglas Hofstadter , Seymour Papert , Elliot Soloway , Jim Spohrer

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Gehört Programmieren zur Allgemeinbildung?Should programming be part of general education?

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Programmieren ist schwierig

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Lernen

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LOGO (Programmiersprache)

LOGO (programming language) , notional machine ,

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programming , Programmiersprachen programming languages , Prolog (Programmiersprache)

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Year	Title	Requests	IB	OB	KB	LB
1979	Gödel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)	11, 22, 6, 6, 3, 10, 16, 7, 12, 15, 9, 13	95	168	13	16580
1982	Mindstorms (Seymour Papert)	11, 19, 6, 5, 4, 7, 19, 8, 13, 12, 5, 18	343	47	18	5930
1988	Studying the Novice Programmer (Elliot Soloway, Jim Spohrer)	3, 7, 8, 2, 4, 5, 10, 4, 8, 11, 8, 3	64	47	3	560

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ICER 2015 - Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2015, Omaha, NE, USA, August 09 - 13, (Brian Dorn, Judy Sheard, Quintin I. Cutts) (2015)
- Using Commutative Assessments to Compare Conceptual Understanding in Blocks-based and Text-based Programs (David Weintrop, Uri Wilensky) (2015)
Modality matters - Understanding the Effects of Programming Language Representation in High School Computer Science Classrooms (David Weintrop) (2016)

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