Title

Learning Curve Management in Educational Programming Environments

Authors

Benjamin H. Brinckerhof, Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth J. Goldman, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2004-12-14

Filename

wucse-2004-78.pdf

DOI:

10.7936/K7P26WGF

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2004-78

Abstract

Beginning programmers are best served by integrateddevelopment environments that adapt to their growingsophistication as programmers. To this end, we propose fourdesign goals for learning curve management in educationalprogramming environments. We provide pedagogicaljustification for each goal, describe possible supporting featuresets, and discuss the extent to which these goals have beenachieved in some current environments, particularly JPie, ourinteractive environment for live construction of Java applications.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7P26WGF

Recommended Citation

Brinckerhof, Benjamin H. and Goldman, Kenneth J., "Learning Curve Management in Educational Programming Environments" Report Number: WUCSE-2004-78 (2004). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/1048