End-User Experiences of Visual and Textual Programming Environments for Arduino

Abstract

This is the unspecified version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent Abstract.Arduino is an open source electronics platform aimed at hobbyists, artists, and other people who want to make things but do not necessarily have a background in electronics or programming. We report the results of an exploratory empirical study that investigated the potential for a visual programming environment to provide benefits with respect to efficacy and user experience to end-user programmers of Arduino as an alternative to traditional text-based coding. We also investigated learning barriers that participants encountered in order to inform future programming environment design. Our study provides a first step in exploring end-user programming environments for open source electronics platforms.

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Avaliação de linguagens visuais de programação no ensino médio a partir da utilização do conceito de Robótica Pedagógica

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block.ino: Um experimento remoto para ensino de lógica de programação, robótica e eletrônica básica

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