• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.143-150
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• 2016

Programming is a difficult meat for novices. Educatees nowadays start to play games before they first attend formal education. Serious games offer tools that may have potential to support programming trainers to become more engaged on their learning through a learn while having fun approach. This paper aims to design and implement serious game for programming education. Our serious game substitutes game rules and objects for elements of programming language. We will begin by describing the game mechanics, followed by the general system architecture, finalizing with a small conclusion. We also discuss the implications of our work for the development of the serious game that support the identified features and teach programming concepts.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.351-358
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• 2009

This study shows how to impact on programming learning using Scratch by the learning style. Firstly, students were classified by learning styles test using the VARK questionnaire. After one semester of programming education, correlation with learning styles and various instructional factors was analyzed. Scratch-based programming education improves the cognitive effectiveness and learning satisfaction for elementary school students. Especially students with visual preference performed better on programming education based on Scratch statistically. As a result, the process of programming must be mainly considered in programming education.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.33A no.3
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• pp.107-116
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• 1996

Recently, the flash memory has been abstracting great attention in the semiconductor market in the world because of its potential applications as mass storage devices. One of the most significant barriers to the scalling-down of the stacked-gate devices such as EPROM's and flash EEPROM's is the large subthreshold leakage in the unselected cells connected with the bit line of a selected cell in the array during programming. The large subthreshold leakge is majorly due to the capacitive coupling between the floating gates of the unselectd cells and the bit line of selected cell. In this paper, a new programming method to redcue significantly the drain turn-on leakage in the unselected cells during programming has been studied, where a little positive voltage (0.25-0.75V) is applied to the soruce during programming unlike the conventional programming method in which the source is grounded. The resutls of the PISCES simulations and the electrical measurements for the standard EPROM with 0.35.mu.m effective channel length and 1.0.mu.m effective channel width show that the subthreshold leakage in the unselectd cells is significantly large when the source is grounded, whereas it is negligibly small when the source is biased ot a little positive voltage during programming. On the other hadn, the positive bias on the source is found to have little effects on the programming speed of the EPROM.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.301-310
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• 2010

In this paper, to instruct elementary programming concepts based on flowchart programming for elementary school students, we proposed sensor-based elementary robot programming PBL problems using line-tracer robots. Proposed PBL problems are designed to have various correct-answer algorithms. For this purpose, we present PBL-based robot programming instruction steps. Through applying the proposed sensor-based PBL problems using line-tracer robots, experimental results are analyzed in views of the problem-solving ability and suitability of allocating degrees of difficulties to the proposed elementary robot programming problems.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.43-51
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• 2007

We have developed a peer agent to support programming learning and analyzed its educational effects in a programming course. The agent acts as a tutor or a tutee. The role of a tutor/tutee is like the role of a navigator/driver in pair programming. While students are learning with the peer agent, the students' programming abilities are modeled. Based on the student's model, the peer agent provides appropriate feedbacks and contents to the learner. The peer agent gives positive effects on learners' achievement and self-efficacy in a programming course. It means that the peer agent system helps the learner in an affective domain as well as a cognitive domain.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.331-339
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• 2023

In programming classes, there is always a need to efficiently manage programming assignments. This is especially important as class sizes and assignment complexity grows. GitHub and GitHub Classroom makes the management of student assignments much simpler than uploading files and folders to a LMS or shared online drive. Additionally, git and GitHub are industry standard tools, so introducing students these tools in class provides them a good opportunity to start learning about how software is developed in the real-world. This study describes a workflow that uses both GitHub Pages and GitHub Classroom for more efficient classroom and assignment management. The workflow outlined in this study was used in two practical web programming classes in Spring 2023 with 46 third and fourth-year university students. GitHub Pages was used as a classroom website to distribute class announcements, assignments, lecture slides, study guides, and exams. GitHub Classroom was used as a class roster and assignment management platform. The workflow presented in this study is expected to assist other lecturers with the formidable tasks of distributing, collecting, grading, and leaving feedback on multiple students' multi-file programming assignments in practical programming classes.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.17-23
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• 2024

The core of artificial intelligence technology is the power of software, and programming has become a craze in recent years due to the growing interest. The purpose of this study is to explore factors that affect the programming academic performance of engineering college students. In order to analyze the factors, 153 college students (4 classes) who applied for the 'Programming Language and Practice' course, which is a compulsory course in Information and Communication Engineering (ICE) at a university located in Metropolitan City, analyzed the relationship between their test scores, attendance, assignments reflecting the learner's personality type, SAT scores, and high school record. As a result of the analysis, it was found that attendance and assignments were found to have a positive correlation with programming performance at a significant level of 5% and 1%, and in particular, assignments provided a significant effect on programming performance through multiple regression analysis. In the analysis of the correlation between SAT scores and high school record with programming score, there were no significant correlation in all four classes. The implications of these results were examined in conjunction with prior studies, and the limitations of this study and points to be supplemented in future studies were suggested.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.79-88
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• 2014

Authentic programming environment makes App Inventor interesting educational programming language. However, there are not sufficient studies for usefulness of App Inventor as educational programming language, so proper design of App Inventor education is not available. This article aims to design proper programming education plan using App Inventor. A survey was conducted to ask for appropriation of App Inventor education to teachers and students. As a result, teachers and students were satisfied with App Inventor for programming language in elementary and secondary schools, due to easy-to-use programming environment and real product run in their devices. But learners need to have prior knowledge to use App Inventor and teachers have to manage learners' devices properly. Finally, revised elementary and secondary programming education plan using App Inventor was presented.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.89-98
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• 2014

Programming is excellent tool on realizing ideas. However students often complain of difficulties due to requiring the strict programming grammar and the highly thinking. Although various researches have been conducted to teach the programming easily for students, it should precede the analysis of what and why programming concept is difficult for learners. In this study, we analyzed what and why the programming concept is difficult for novice learners in basic programming education. Based on the results, we suggested: improving problem-solving skills based on accurate understanding and internalization on the programming concept, on reducing error between thought and execution results through the creation of sophisticated algorithms and on offering a variety of troubleshooting experience, establishing strategies to think freely for problem-solving process, and promoting the effectiveness of the learning through the learning procedure design.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

The programming education in K-12 field is processing with conceptual approaches to obtain basic grammar not including higher knowledge processing. This is main reason that can't able to obtain the educational effects. This study aims to research the innovated methodology of programming education which can have educational effect by participating of learners with positive interest, and recognize the effect of the Scratch programming education on elementary school student's learning-flow and programming ability. As a result Scratch programming education has effect on elementary school student's improving the level of learning-flow and the programming ability.