Visual Programming Environments for Object-Oriented Programming: Acceptance and Effects on Student Motivation

Felipe I. Anfurrutia, Ainhoa Alvarez, Mikel Larrañaga, Juan-Miguel López-Gil

2017 - IEEE-RITA Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje

Journal paper

Authors by signature order:
Felipe I. Anfurrutia, Ainhoa Alvarez, Mikel Larrañaga, Juan-Miguel López-Gil
Description:

This paper presents an experiment in which visual programming environments have been used in programming courses aiming at helping students to acquire the competencies of a course on object-oriented programming. This paper is centered on the analysis of the acceptance by the students of this type of environment, as well as its effect on the motivation of the students. The results obtained show differences in their answers according to the two possible characteristics of the students analyzed: their gender and the fact of being or not a newcomer.

Editorial:
IEEE
Publication year:
2017
Start page:
124
Final page:
131
ISBN - ISSN:
1932-8540
File URL:
https://doi.org/10.1109/RITA.2017.2735478
Quality indicators:
SJR 2017 - Q3 en ?Education?,?E-learning? y Q2 en ?Engineering miscellaneous?.
Publication name:
IEEE-RITA Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje
Volume:
12
Number:
3