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An “enjoyable” introduction to Programming Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy CS faculty, University of Texas at Dallas Email: jeyv@utdallas.edu Website: www.utdallas.edu/~jeyv

Analogy for learning to program: Learning to ride bicycle Difficulties for beginners: Learning to balance & go forward together Difficulties for experienced folks: None.

Solution for beginners Training wheels Helmet Makes learning enjoyable and safe! Similar difficulties are there while learning to program in a computer.

Learning to program: Difficulties for beginners Syntax errors struggle for hours to fix syntax errors Loose confidence Frustrating experience Run away & never come back if possible! 2. Logic errors Not a serious issue.

Difficulties for experienced programmers Logic errors Continuous learning

Recommendation C/C++/Java in introductory programming course has been a disaster for lots of learners! It is better to use intermediate steps like Alice and KhanAcademy. Following is a meaningful approach: Alice  KhanAcademy JavaScript  C/C++/Java

Recommendation … Visual Programming Tools like Alice use drag-and-drop programming and enable us to master programming concepts. Programs are always ready to run since there are no syntax errors. In other words, they enable us to focus on the logic first & build confidence.

Free Visual Programming Tools Provider Web-site Alice 2.3 Carnegie Mellon University www.alice.org Scratch MIT scratch.mit.edu Snap! UCBerkeley byob.berkeley.edu Lego MindStorm Lego mindstorms.lego.com Several more…

A few bit advanced tools Provider Web-site Alice 3.1 Carnegie Mellon University www.alice.org JavaScript & Processing.js Khan Academy CS platform www.khanacademy.org/cs Racket UCBerkeley wescheme.org Greenfoot Ukent www.greenfoot.org Several more…