Assessing the usability of students object-oriented language with first-year IT students: a case study
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This paper describes our "objects-first" programming environment from the perspective of HCI in education. We argue why a syntactically simple domain-specific programming language allows first-year IT students to focus on core programming skills such as code reading, writing, and debugging. We present a case study of first-year IT students at our regional university. The results suggest that simplified language design helps a student develop transferable skills and conceptual knowledge when compared with traditional approaches.
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25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: augmentation, application, innovation, collaboration
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978-1-4503-2525-7
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8
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Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Association for Computing Machinery
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10.1145/2541016.2541036