Tools to support initial programming learning
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چکیده
Basic programming learning is known as complex for many novice students at university level. We have been working for several years in the development of computer based tools that may help students in programming learning. From the utilization of those tools we concluded that while they proved useful for many students, for those with deeper difficulties they were not enough to promote learning to an acceptable level. Our current work tries to address this problem through the development of new tools and some studies that may lead to new directions in our future work. In this paper we describe our previous and current work in this field.
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