A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing

Neil Brown; Charalampos Kyfonidis; Pierre Weill-Tessier; Brett A. Becker; Joe Dillane; Michael Kölling

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A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing

Neil Brown, Charalampos Kyfonidis, Pierre Weill-Tessier, Brett A. Becker, Joe Dillane, Michael Kölling

UCD University College Dublin

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Block-based programming has become popular for children and young school students, but at university level almost all programming is still text-based. A third intermediate option is the use of frame-based editors that combine elements of both block- and text-based systems. However, there have been few evaluations of the efficacy of frame-based editing, so its suitability for school use is uncertain. This paper describes an experiment comparing the use of frame-based and text-based editing in a UK school setting. A total of 85 teenage students from five different schools each completed three sessions of object-oriented programming tasks and a programming quiz, with each school assigned to use either a text-based editor or frame-based editor. We found no difference in understanding of object-oriented concepts between the two editors, and no difference in task completion times. This provides some evidence to suggest that frame-based editing is a viable option for use in a school setting, in place of text-based editing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UKICER 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8568-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3481282.3481286
Publication status	Published - 2 Sept 2021

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Brown, N., Kyfonidis, C., Weill-Tessier, P., Becker, B. A., Dillane, J., & Kölling, M. (2021). A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing. In UKICER 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (pp. 1-7). Article 2 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3481282.3481286

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Brown N , Kyfonidis C , Weill-Tessier P, Becker BA, Dillane J, Kölling M. A Frame of Mind: Frame-based vs. Text-based Editing. In UKICER 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research. Association for Computing Machinery. 2021. p. 1-7. 2. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3481282.3481286

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