Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems Export

@article{citeulike:2182327, abstract = {As programming skills increase in demand and utility, the learnability of end-user programming systems is of utmost importance. However, research on learning barriers in programming systems has primarily focused on languages, overlooking potential barriers in the environment and accompanying libraries. To address this, a study of beginning programmers learning Visual Basic.NET was performed. This identified six types of barriers: design, selection, coordination, use, understanding, and information. These barriers inspire a new metaphor of computation, which provides a more learner-centric view of programming system design.}, author = {Ko, Andrew and Myers, Brad and Anug, Htet H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2182327}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/vlhcc/2004/8696/00/8696toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/VLHCC.2004.47}, keywords = {barriers, end, learning, programing, user}, posted-at = {2007-12-31 01:46:38}, priority = {0}, title = {Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems}, url = {http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/vlhcc/2004/8696/00/8696toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/VLHCC.2004.47} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2182327 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2182327 N2 - As programming skills increase in demand and utility, the learnability of end-user programming systems is of utmost importance. However, research on learning barriers in programming systems has primarily focused on languages, overlooking potential barriers in the environment and accompanying libraries. To address this, a study of beginning programmers learning Visual Basic.NET was performed. This identified six types of barriers: design, selection, coordination, use, understanding, and information. These barriers inspire a new metaphor of computation, which provides a more learner-centric view of programming system design. TI - Six Learning Barriers in End-User Programming Systems KW - barriers KW - end KW - learning KW - programing KW - user AU - Ko, Andrew AU - Myers, Brad AU - Anug, Htet UR - http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/vlhcc/2004/8696/00/8696toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/VLHCC.2004.47 ER -