Beyond text: The future of IDEs
Michael Kölling · 2016
Summary form only given. Early programming education is undergoing substantial change: Once a discipline taught primarily at university level, most learners now encounter computer science and especially programming long before leaving school. At the beginning, attempts dominated using existing tools for teaching and learning at younger age groups. In the last few years, this has been replaced by widespread use of programming tools custom designed for young learners both for organised teaching and for self study. In this talk, I will discuss this development, what it means for our teaching and for tool development, and present thoughts, ideas and predictions about the future of educational programming tools. Influences on general (professional) development environments are also discussed.