To block or not to block, that is the question: students' perceptions of blocks-based programming

By David Weintrop, Uri Wilensky. International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2015

388 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Software

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/712d8eb06b12b9a71f1c715dba4c22c58162814f

How researchers see this paper

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In Computer Science Applications

1. Uri Wilensky
2. David Weintrop
3. Davy Tsz Kit Ng
4. S. K. Chu
5. J. Stephen Downie
6. M. Lee
7. Xiao Hu
8. Roy Jun Yi Tan

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. David Weintrop
2. Uri Wilensky
3. S. K. Chu
4. J. Stephen Downie
5. M. Lee
6. Xiao Hu
7. Davy Tsz Kit Ng
8. Roy Jun Yi Tan

In Software

1. Uri Wilensky
2. David Weintrop

Citations in the corpus

• A review of AI teaching and learning from 2000 to 2020 (2022, background): “…development can be learned through various tasks, such as game design, tinkering and programming with syntax/block-based programming languages (Weintrop & Wilensky, 2015) or by using multimedia elements and 8458 Education and Information Technologies (2023) 28:8445–8501 1 3 simulation…”
• Comparing Block-Based and Text-Based Programming in High School Computer Science Classrooms (2017, methodology): “This section begins with a statistical analysis of student performance on the Commutative Assessment.”
• Learnable programming (2017, background): “In the words of one student, JavaScript “is really confusing to understand with all the parentheses and brackets and all of that” [38].”