(How) Should Variables and Their Naming Be Taught in Novice Programming Education?
Vivian van der Werf, Efthimia Aivaloglou, Felienne Hermans, Marcus M. Specht · 2022
With the growing interest in programming skills in society, programming will inevitably become part of national curricula. The research presented on this poster aims to address programming for everyone and hopes to contribute to the accessibility of programming lessons for both students and teachers with various backgrounds. In order to do so, we approach the learning and teaching of a programming language from a natural language perspective, and in particular, we focus on reading code, including one of the most important programming concepts: variables.