Investigating the effect of the use of code.org on younger elementary school students' attitudes towards programming.
The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of the use of code.org (particularly Course 2) on elementary school students' attitudes towards programming, and whether the positive effects of this software are lower for students who are 7 or 8 years old. The research involved 293 students (ag...
| Publicado en: | Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 40; no. 16; pp. 1784 - 1796 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2021
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