CodingCUSP: A web application to support the transition from Scratch to Python
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Learners making the transition from block-based programming languages to text-based programming languages often find the transition frustrating and difficult, in part due to increased difficulty in reading and writing text-based code and the lack of visible scaffolds for correct syntax. We created a program, CodingCUSP (Contextualized User-focused Scaffolded Pathways), that introduces a text-based programming language–Python–within coding tasks contextualized in different academic subjects. Worked examples tie into learners’ prior Scratch knowledge to gradually build learners’ text-based programming skills and a scaffolded coding environment provides learners with support as they write their first programs in Python. Initial learner studies with middle school students have found a general trend of learners’ improved self-efficacy in Python programming accompanied with improved knowledge of Python coding.
Description
| Type of resource | mixed material, text, moving image |
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| Publication date | December 4, 2023 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Garcia, Raycelle C. C. |
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9400-6566
(unverified)
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| Author | Lin, Nathan |
Subjects
| Subject | Computer Science Education |
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| Subject | Block-based coding |
| Subject | Text-based coding |
| Subject | Hybrid coding environment |
| Subject | Human-centered computing |
| Subject | Learning Experience Design |
| Subject | Blocks-to-text transition |
| Genre | Mixed materials |
| Genre | Capstone |
| Genre | Report |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Video recording |
| Genre | Student project report |
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- Garcia, R. and Lin, N. (2023). CodingCUSP: A web application to support the transition from Scratch to Python. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/kv504dx7209. https://doi.org/10.25740/kv504dx7209.
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Learning Design & Technology 2023
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- raycellegarcia@gmail.com
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