Berry, Michael, Kölling, Michael (2013) The design and implementation of a notional machine for teaching introductory programming. In: WiPSE '13. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education. . pp. 25-28. ACM, New York ISBN 978-1-4503-2455-7. (doi:10.1145/2532748.2532765) (KAR id:37645)
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Abstract
Comprehension of programming and programs is known to be a difficult task for many beginning students, with many computing courses showing significant drop out and failure rates. In this paper, we present a new notional machine design and implementation to help with understanding of programming and its dynamics for beginning learners. The notional machine offers an abstraction of the physical machine designed for comprehension and learning purposes. We introduce the notional machine and describe an implementation in BlueJ.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| DOI/Identification number: | 10.1145/2532748.2532765 |
| Subjects: |
Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, > QA76.76 Computer software Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, > QA76.9.H85 Human computer interaction |
| Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Michael Kolling |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Dec 2013 15:32 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/37645 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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