ICONIC Programming in BACCII vs. Textual Programming: Which is a Better Learning Environment?

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 188-192

  Calloni, Ben A ^a   Bagert, Donald J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); LEARNING SYSTEMS; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TEACHING; USER INTERFACES;

ALGORITHM COMPREHENSION; DATA ICON; ICONIC PROGRAMMING; PROCEDURAL PROGRAMMING; TEXTUAL PROGRAMMING; WINDOW BASED APPLICATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0028386394     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/191033.191103     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. LIST OF 1. Calloni, Ben A., and Bagert, Donald E., “BACCII: An Iconic Syntax-Directed System for Teaching Procedural Programming”, ACM Southeast Regional Conference Proceedings, Apr 1993, pp. 177-183.
2. Lodding, Kenneth N., Iconic Interfacing, Visual Programming Environments: Applications and Issues, Glinert, Ephraim P. Ed. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, 1990, pp. 231-238.
3. Scanlan, David A., Data Structures Students may Prefer to learn Algorithms Using Graphical Methods, SIGCSE Vol 19, 1, Feb 1987, pp. 302-307.
4. Scanlan, David A., Should Short Relatively complex Algorithms be Taught Using Both Graphical and Verbal Methods?, SIGCSE Vol 20, 1, Feb 1988, pp. 185-189.