Assessing the usability of students object-oriented language with first-year IT students: a case study

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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