Novice programmers are facing many difficulties while learning to program. Most studies
about misconceptions in programming are conducted at the undergraduate level, yet there is …

Novices enrolled in introductory programming courses often face many difficulties. These
difficulties are more emphasized when novices are K–12 students. Many new visual …

The effective teaching of the concept of programming, where critical thinking is an important
factor, is not so easy in secondary education. New teaching approaches, including, game …

Bu çalışmanın amacı, ortaokul düzeyinde görsel programlama etkinliklerinin öğrencilerin
bilgi-işlemsel düşünme becerileri üzerindeki etkisini ve öğrencilerin bu sürece ilişkin …

This study examined the effects of students' construction of computer-based educational
games, using Scratch, on their mathematical equation-solving performance and their …

Abstract Background and Context Most studies about programming misconceptions are
conducted at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Since the age level for starting …

The purpose of this study was to examine the pre-service teachers' computational thinking
(CT) skills and self-efficacy (SE) towards teaching CT, who attended a course in which …

There are known misconceptions about variables which are mostly the same since the first
studies since more than 30 years ago. Consciousness about the misconceptions in …

Background Coding has been added to school curricula in several countries, being one of
the necessary competencies of the 21st century. Although it has also been suggested to …

Sažetak The link between problem-solving and programming skills is well known. Students
with higher problem-solving abilities find programming easy and they can master …