The Looking Glass IDE for learning computer programming through storytelling and history exploration: conference workshop
Paul Gross, Caitlin L. Kelleher · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2010
Coincident with the difficulties of learning computer programming are two difficulties of teaching programming: motivating students' interest (particularly females and minorities) and helping students to learn from examples. Research suggests storytelling can be a motivating context for young women learning programming [2] and reusing code from given programs is a potential pathway for learning programming concepts [1]. The Looking Glass IDE supports both by having new programmers build interactive 3D stories and offering interfaces for exploring execution history.