Iconic programming proves effective for teaching the first year programming sequence

Authors:
Ben A. Calloni;Donald J. Bagert;H. Paul Haiduk
Affiliations:
Texas Tech University, Department of Computer Science, Lubbock, TX;Texas Tech University, Department of Computer Science, Lubbock, TX;Texas Tech University, Department of Computer Science, Lubbock, TX
Venue:
SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1997

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Abstract

Research has been undertaken to answer the following question: Can icon-based programming languages be used to teach first year programming concepts to undergraduate students more effectively than text-based languages? BACCII++ is an iconic environment developed at Texas Tech University for teaching procedural and object-oriented programming concepts and languages. Course materials were developed and used under experimental conditions during the 1995-96 school year at Texas Tech University, with half using BACCII++ to generate C++ code, and the other half using only C++. For each course in each semester the experiment was run, the sections using BACCII++ did significantly better in overall performance.