Evaluating visual programming environments to teach computing to minority high school students
Marvin Andujar, Luis Felipe Herrera Jiménez, Jugal Shah, Patricia A. Morreale · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2013
This paper discusses a nine-month research study to determine which of two programming environments, Alice or Android App Inventor, have a greater impact on high school student's interest and learning in computer science. Both interfaces were taught to high school students in this comparative study, and an assessment has been done to determine which environment is superior for teaching computing to high school students. Furthermore, this paper describes how both environments increase student interest in computer science, but the participants retained more information when taught in Alice.