Learning Computer Programming: Start from Scratch!
Afroditi Michailidi · 2010
The Greek Technical High School curriculum includes a senior-year course in Computer Programming which most of the students, with no prior schooling, confuse with basic computer skills. To motivate them, we used Scratch, a programming tool that encompasses modularity, object-oriented-programming and multi- threading. Student response was highly encouraging. All were engaged in the activities and many continued on their own. Scratch enabled the students to focus on the method rather than the syntax. As a result students earned a better look and a deeper understanding of the basics of computer programming.