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Learning Computational Thinking concepts by all has gained quite importance in last years. Scratch is also one of the most used products to promote it worldwide. Yet, most teachers face difficulties when using it in the classroom with their students. With this idea in mind we developed and run a distance education course under the Project of Distance Education of the University of Coimbra specially...
The difficulties faced by students and teachers in learning and teaching introductory programming has been a research issue over the years. Demotivation is common in many novice programming students, who are not able to cope with the natural difficulties associated to programming learning. It is up to the teacher to find strategies to help students and keep them motivated during the course. The objective...
Unemployment has been a major concern in recent years. This is particular true for young people and in the case of Portugal for youngsters with a Higher Education degree. In this paper we describe the program “Acertar o Rumo”, a two years program to reconvert unemployed graduates in Engineering and Exact and Natural Science in experienced Java programmers. Particularly, we focus on the Programming...
The present edition of the Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje (RITA) contains a selection of two papers that have been presented at the 15th edition of the International Symposium on Computers in Education (SIIE), that was held in Viseu, Portugal, between the 13rd and 15th November 2013.
Learning computer programming is not simple for many students. They have to develop several complex skills to be able to understand programs and, more important, to create programs that solve problems. This means it is important that students have a high motivation level, so that they engage in that work and do not get frustrated with the natural errors they will make in this process. Digital games...
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