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THE USAGE OF VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Petri Malisu, Lucie Bryndova

First published: 2020https://doi.org/10.5593/sws.iscss.2020.7.1/s08.58View metrics

Abstract

In this paper, we present the results from research focused on the usage of visual programming languages for teaching programming and algorithmization, which was a part of research named „The usage of educational materials in informatics“. The purpose of this research was to collect data about which didactics aids and educational materials do teachers use and get the foundation for upcoming research that would go deeper into specific topics. The data were collected by a questionnaire among Czech teachers of a secondary grade of elementary schools and its equivalent in grammar schools. Descriptive type of analysis is used for data evaluation. Results show, that most of the teachers, which are teaching programming and algorithmization in the subject of informatics or in afterschool hobby group, are using visual programming languages such a Scratch, or they use them on learning portals like code.org and didactics games like CodeCombat. Another very popular option of usage of visual programming is for educational robots. Also, they find these programming languages as an appropriate way for teaching programming and they agreed, that visual programming languages can motivate pupils more towards programming than a high-level programming language. This popularity of visual programming language can lead to the spread of these languages among others teachers and contribute to the development of more environments for teaching programming with the usage of visual programming language, instead of high-level programming languages, which can be harder to understand due to its lack of visual representation.

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Title
THE USAGE OF VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Authors
Petri Malisu, Lucie Bryndova
Proceedings
7th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2020
Publisher
STEF92 Technology
Year
2020
Pages
477-482
SWS Citekey
Malisu20208477482
ISSN
2682-9959
ISBN
978-619-7603-02-6
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
Visual programming languageeducation of informaticsprogramming education
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