Computer-supported Techniques to Increase Students Engagement in Programming

Paula Correia Tavares, Pedro Rangel Henriques, Elsa Ferreira Gomes

2016

Abstract

One of the main reasons that justify the student’s failure in (introductory) programming courses is the lack of motivation that impacts on the knowledge acquisition process, affecting learning results. As soon as students face the difficulties concerning the development of algorithms or the coding in a programming language, they give up and do not try harder to solve other problems; they think it is a demanding activity and feel frustrated. In this paper we describe in detail an experiment conducted to verify the effectiveness, in terms of the increase in motivation and in knowledge acquisition, of combining program Animation tools with the immediate feedback provided by Automatic Evaluations Systems.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tavares P., Henriques P. and Gomes E. (2016). Computer-supported Techniques to Increase Students Engagement in Programming . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-179-3, pages 167-174. DOI: 10.5220/0005899001670174

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu16,
author={Paula Correia Tavares and Pedro Rangel Henriques and Elsa Ferreira Gomes},
title={Computer-supported Techniques to Increase Students Engagement in Programming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2016},
pages={167-174},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005899001670174},
isbn={978-989-758-179-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Computer-supported Techniques to Increase Students Engagement in Programming
SN - 978-989-758-179-3
AU - Tavares P.
AU - Henriques P.
AU - Gomes E.
PY - 2016
SP - 167
EP - 174
DO - 10.5220/0005899001670174