From barriers to learning in the idea garden: An empirical study
Abstract
How can end-user programming environments better help their users overcome programming barriers? We have been investigating an approach called Idea Gardening, which addresses this problem by helping end users to help themselves overcome barriers in the context of doing. In this paper, we report on a qualitative empirical study of how effectively an Idea Garden prototype helped end users overcome programming barriers in the CoScripter environment, and the extent to which participants learned after interacting with our features. Our results showed that 9 out of 10 participants who encountered barriers and then used the Idea Garden, overcame their barriers. Further, all 9 went on to demonstrate evidence of having learned the programming concepts, patterns, and strategies relevant to overcoming these barriers. © 2012 IEEE.
Publication Title
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC
Recommended Citation
Cao, J., Kwan, I., White, R., Fleming, S., Burnett, M., & Scaffidi, C. (2012). From barriers to learning in the idea garden: An empirical study. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC, 59-66. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344483
