The Looking Glass IDE for learning computer programming through storytelling and history exploration: conference workshop

Authors:
Paul Gross;Caitlin Kelleher
Affiliations:
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO;Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Coincident with the difficulties of learning computer programming are two difficulties of teaching programming: motivating students' interest (particularly females and minorities) and helping students to learn from examples. Research suggests storytelling can be a motivating context for young women learning programming [2] and reusing code from given programs is a potential pathway for learning programming concepts [1]. The Looking Glass IDE supports both by having new programmers build interactive 3D stories and offering interfaces for exploring execution history.