Transparency and liveness in visual programming environments for novices

Blocks-based programming environments offer an alternative program representation to textual source code that simplifies the considerations of syntax for novices. This position paper raises the question of whether additional affordances related to transparency of data, transparency of semantics, and...

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Veröffentlicht in:2015 IEEE Blocks and Beyond Workshop (Blocks and Beyond) S. 113 - 114
1. Verfasser: Tanimoto, Steven L.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.10.2015
Schlagworte:
blocks-based
Conferences
data factory
Encoding
learning to code
live coding
liveness
novice programming
Programming
programming environment
Programming environments
Semantics
Syntactics
transparency
visual programming
Visualization
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Zusammenfassung:Blocks-based programming environments offer an alternative program representation to textual source code that simplifies the considerations of syntax for novices. This position paper raises the question of whether additional affordances related to transparency of data, transparency of semantics, and liveness of execution can be consistently added to these environments to obtain some significant advantages for these novice programmers.
DOI:10.1109/BLOCKS.2015.7369016