Alistair Stead
ABSTRACT
The increasing popularity of educational programming languages and renewed emphasis on learning to program in school has led to a situation where students are finding it difficult to make the transition to novice-friendly visual notation to text-based notation. In my work, I investigate the ways in which concepts can be transferred between notations, and how novice programming environments can support users in the acquisition of the necessary notational expertise to competently use text-based notation.
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- How can we improve notational expertise?
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