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This research is introducing and evaluating the new method supporting grow of programming skills, computational thinking and development of problem-solving approach that evolutionarily introduce programming good practices and paradigms through a block-based programming. The proposed approach utilizes problem-based Scottie-Go game followed by Scratch programming environment implanted to Python programming course to improve the learners’ programming skills and keeps motivation for further discovery of computational problem-solving activity. To date, practically little work has been devoted to examining the relationship between beginner development environments and the development practices they stimulate in their users. This article tries to shed light on this aspect of learning programming by carefully examining the behaviour of novice programmers using the innovative block-based programming learning method.
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Gepner, P., Wybraniak-Kujawa, M., Krawiec, J., Kamiński, A., Halbiniak, K. (2023). Empirical Studies of Students Behaviour Using Scottie-Go Block Tools to Develop Problem-Solving Experience. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36030-5_55
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