Coding Strip: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching and Learning Programming Concepts through Comics

The abstract nature of programming makes learning to code a daunting undertaking for many novice learners. In this work, we advocate the use of comics-a medium capable of presenting abstract ideas in a concrete, familiar way-for introducing programming concepts. Particularly, we propose a design pro...

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Published in:Proceedings (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing) pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors: Suh, Sangho, Lee, Martinet, Xia, Gracie, law, Edith
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.08.2020
Subjects:
Codes
coding strip
comics
computational thinking
computing education
concreteness fading
Conferences
Education
Encoding
Programming profession
Strips
visual language
Visualization
ISSN:1943-6106
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Summary:The abstract nature of programming makes learning to code a daunting undertaking for many novice learners. In this work, we advocate the use of comics-a medium capable of presenting abstract ideas in a concrete, familiar way-for introducing programming concepts. Particularly, we propose a design process and related tools to help students and teachers create coding strips, a form of comic strips that are associated with a piece of code. We conducted two design workshops with students and high school computer science teachers to evaluate our design process and tools. We find that our design process and tools are effective at supporting the design of coding strips and that both students and teachers are excited about using coding strip as a tool for learning and teaching programming concepts.
ISSN:1943-6106
DOI:10.1109/VL/HCC50065.2020.9127262