COVID-19 pandemic has created a whole new set of challenges in all aspects and fields of
education. Teachers and professors had to quickly implement online teaching procedures …

The paper tries to answer the question–can the basics of algorithms and programming at
faculties other than computer science (informatics) be taught more effectively using …

Learning programming requires intensive effort and time to be allocated by students.
Teaching programming needs careful selection of different supportive pedagogical methods …

The industrial world has witnessed an increased demand for computing based skills due to
the advent of robotics, artificial intelligence, and analytics. However, the learning of …

This paper expands a teaching proposal presented at the Innovation and Technology in
Computer Science Education Conference, in 2016. The proposal provides an integrated …

To efficiently support novice programming learners who are feeling the programming
difficult, clarifying the cause of preventing programming comprehension, and developing a …

In general, students do not know how to program, mainly due to their lack of general
problem-solving abilities. This study discusses student difficulties in programming and …

When learning to code, children and novice programmers often transition from block-based
to traditional text-based programming environments. This paper explores the usability …

To efficiently support novice programming learners feeling programming difficult, clarifying
the cause of preventing programming understanding, and developing a new teaching …

Programming education is of vital importance because of growing needs for programming
professionals. Even though efforts have been made in order to improve the quality of …