TIDE: An Educational Live Programming Environment to Compose Graphics with PyTamaro
The PyTamaro approach to introductory programming equates composing a program to composing a graphic. Using the simple PyTamaro library for Python, beginner programmers compose function calls that produce primitive graphics, such as rectangle(20, 10, red), with function calls that combine graphics into composites, such as above(_, _).
To ease students into programming, several school teachers have been using TamaroCards, a paper-based visual language that can express the subset of Python needed to compose simple graphics with PyTamaro. This paper introduces TIDE, the TamaroCards IDE, a web-based environment to complement the unplugged, paper-based TamaroCards.
Given the constraints imposed by the Python programming language, the PyTamaro library, and the TamaroCards notation, the paper explores the design space for an interactive TamaroCards programming environment, describes a design that satisfies the pedagogical needs, and evaluates the implemented design using the Cognitive Dimensions framework.
Wed 15 OctDisplayed time zone: Perth change
16:00 - 17:40 | Session 2PAINT at Peony NE Chair(s): Lukas Böhme Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany | ||
16:00 30mTalk | TIDE: An Educational Live Programming Environment to Compose Graphics with PyTamaro PAINT Joey Bevilacqua Università della Svizzera italiana, Nathan Coquerel Rennes University, Luca Chiodini USI Lugano, Igor Moreno Santos USI Lugano, Matthias Hauswirth USI Lugano DOI Pre-print | ||
16:30 30mTalk | The MNL: A Block-based Functional Programming Language with Reactive Blocks PAINT Steven Lolong University of Tübingen DOI Pre-print | ||
17:00 30mTalk | Toward Bridging the Tool Gap: Equipping Large Language Models with Tools to Answer Programmers’ Questions PAINT Lukas Böhme Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Christoph Thiede Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany, Toni Mattis University of Potsdam; Hasso Plattner Institute, Tom Beckmann Hasso Plattner Institute, Jens Lincke Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam, Robert Hirschfeld Hasso Plattner Institute; University of Potsdam | ||
17:30 10mDay closing | Closing PAINT | ||