Professional paper
Assessments by Students of the Faculty of Teacher Education on Three Computer Programs Aimed at Child Programmers
Ivana Đurđević
; Učiteljski fakultet u Osijeku Sveučilišta J. J. Strossmayera, Osijek, Hrvatska
Abstract
There are many programs which can help pupils in the lower grades of primary school to familiarise themselves with the basic concepts of programming in simple and interesting ways, and some of them do not require learning a specific syntax that makes programming difficult for pupils of that age. The aim of this study was to evaluate some educational programs intended for teaching the basic concepts of programming to pupils in the lower grades of primary school. The participants evaluated Terrapin Logo, Scratch and Kodu programs. For the purpose of this research, a questionnaire was created and used to examine the participants’ attitudes toward these three programs and gave the final participants’ assessment of the programs. The collected data were analyzed and the results showed that the participants considered all three evaluated programs adequate for teaching programming to pupils in the lower grades of primary school. The freeware program Scratch obtained the highest average score, in other words, the participants considered that Scratch was best suited for teaching programming to pupils in the lower grades of primary school.
Keywords
programming; Terrapin Logo; Scratch; Kodu; lower grades of primary school
Hrčak ID:
133854
URI
Publication date:
17.4.2014.
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