Building Tools to Help Students Learn to Program.

The article discusses aspects of building tools to help students to learn computer programming. Topics include the diversity of programming students including older or non-traditional students, the development of programming environments that enable learning such as the author's program Python Tutor...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 60; no. 12; pp. 8 - 10
Main Author:	Guo, Philip
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2017
Subjects:	Computer programming education Nontraditional college students Teaching aids Python programming language Computer software Education
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article discusses aspects of building tools to help students to learn computer programming. Topics include the diversity of programming students including older or non-traditional students, the development of programming environments that enable learning such as the author's program Python Tutor, and the formats of instructional materials for programming education.