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VL/HCC 2020
Tue 11 - Fri 14 August 2020 Dunedin, New Zealand
Thu 13 Aug 2020 10:00 - 10:30 at Zoom Room - Most Influential Paper Chair(s): Steven Tanimoto

Most Influential Paper Award (VLHCC 2010)

Visual programming languages can be used to make computer science more accessible to a broad range of students. The evaluative focus of current research in the area of visual languages for educational purposes primarily aims to better understand motivational benefits as compared to traditional programming languages. Often these visual languages claim to teach students computational thinking concepts; however, although the evaluations show that students may exhibit more enthusiasm, it is not always clear what computational thinking concepts students have actually learned. In this paper we attempt to develop a visual semantic evaluation tool for student-created games and simulations that goes towards depicting the computational thinking concepts implemented by the students. Through semantically analyzing a given student’s created projects over time, this visual evaluation tool, called the Computational Thinking Pattern (CTP) graph, can possibly indicate the existence of computational thinking transfer from games to science simulations.

Thu 13 Aug

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10:00 - 10:30
Most Influential PaperKeynotes at Zoom Room
Chair(s): Steven Tanimoto University of Washington, Seattle
10:00
30m
Talk
Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for
Adaptive Visual Language Learning
Keynotes
Kyu Han Koh California State University Stanislaus, Ashok Basawapatna SUNY Old Westbury, Vicki Bennett , Alexander Repenning University of Colorado, Boulder
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