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Brusilovsky, Peter; Calabrese, E.; Koreňová, Lilla; Kouchnirenko, Anatoly; Miller, Paul B.

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“…These factors partly explain why a short introduction is sufficient even for absolute beginners, and how the students may understand basic concepts sometimes even implicitly. All these features are in line with the recommendations about successful mini-language microworlds (Brusilovsky et al, 1997). (Even if the paper by Brusilovsky and his colleagues is more than 20 years old, we found that paper to be the most comprehensive work about the critical features of mini-language microworlds and about their evaluation.)…”

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confidence: 74%

“…While executing the code, the user can track (a) what line is executed, and (b) where the robot is in the labyrinth. The software is similar to other mini-language microworlds (see an excellent overview of these educational tools in Brusilovsky, Calabrese, Hvorecky, Kouchnirenko, & Miller, 1997), although the AlgoTaurus language is even simpler than the languages in those former tools.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…QUIT and GOTOthese are the statements originally found in the Labirint software), which can be explained in minutes to the students, and they can understand and learn them rather quickly. This small set of statements is even smaller than the usual number of available statements in a minilanguage (Brusilovsky et al, 1997). Additionally, while visual programming languages are recommended for beginners, because code builders do not have to carefully consider syntactic issues, the small language used in AlgoTaurus makes the use of syntactic rules easy, and typically it does not cause syntactic issues.…”

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Algotaurus: an educational computer programming game for beginners

Krajcsi

Csapodi

Stettner

2019

Interactive Learning Environments

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An educational computer game is presented, used for beginner students to introduce some basic concepts of code execution and code writing. In this mini-language microworld game, a code should be written with which a robot can escape from a procedurally generated labyrinth. The game uses a simple language and utilizes a virtual environment, where code execution could be tracked easily. One essential advantage of the software is that after a very short training, students can start experimenting, and they can understand many basic properties of code writing and execution. Based on several pilot teaching classes in both primary schools and universities, the game is an efficient tool to introduce the bases of computer programming, which bases might be harder to demonstrate with other educational tools.

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Algotaurus: an educational computer programming game for beginners

Krajcsi

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Stettner

2019

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“…The course at UOM-TMD is based on the microworld approach to teaching programming [12] and the educational IDE BlueJ [8]. First, a brief (2 weeks) introduction to OOP concepts takes place based on the microworld objectKarel [13] with the aim of familiarizing students with the most fundamental OOP concepts in a clear and intuitive way.…”

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Usage of Technology Enhanced Educational Tools for Delivering Programming Courses

Ivanović

Xinogalos

Komlenov

2011

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Abstract-Methods and approaches behind technology enhanced learning (TEL) in programming courses at a university level encourage continuous research in the last 20 years. Still there is no generally applicable way that would guarantee success. In this paper some experiences gathered during years of a technology-enhanced approach in teaching Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) at two universities in two countries are presented and compared. Emphasis is given on the technology-enhanced educational tools that were selected or developed by the two institutions for teaching OOP. Different traditions and independent development at both institutions allow us to draw generally applicable conclusions and recommendations.

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“…• It is cognitively complex to transfer an algorithm to a programming language (Pane & Myers, 1996;Smith, Cypher, & Sprohrer, 1994). • Students usually solve problems that refer to number and symbol processing that are far from their everyday experiences (Brusilovsky et al, 1997).…”

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An Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer from Microworld Programming to Conventional Programming

Xinogalos

2012

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Programming microworlds are being used for introducing students to programming for many years. Although many professors and school teachers report positive results from using programming microwords, these results are usually based on anecdotal evidence rather than rigorous empirical evaluation. A question that has not been answered yet with certainty is whether the knowledge acquired in the context of a programming microworld is transferred to a conventional programming language. In an attempt to investigate this issue we used a specially designed middle-term exam and a questionnaire at the end of an undergraduate Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) course. The course uses the programming microworld objectKarel for a short introduction to the most fundamental OOP concepts, and then the environment BlueJ and Java for presenting the real thing. The analysis of students' replies in the questionnaire shows that the introduction to OOP with the microworld helps the vast majority of students to comprehend fundamental concepts of OOP and what is more important is that this knowledge is transferred to Java afterwards. These results are supported by the comparative analysis of students' performance in written exams that took place in the context of two distinct offerings of the course, prior and after the use of the microworld in it.

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Cited by 127 publications

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Algotaurus: an educational computer programming game for beginners

Algotaurus: an educational computer programming game for beginners

Usage of Technology Enhanced Educational Tools for Delivering Programming Courses

An Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer from Microworld Programming to Conventional Programming

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