Reasoning and Geometric Patterns in Visual Programming with Non-STEM majors
Emre Dinç, ChanMin Kim · Proceedings. · 2025
We explored how non-STEM majors reason while programming geometric patterns in Scratch.Participants (a) used recursive reasoning to transform patterns into manipulable forms via visual cues and (b) applied nested loops to expand patterns across distant cases.Fraction-based reasoning emerged while adjusting proportions to refine pattern components.