Tuesday, June 23
5:15 PM-7:00 PM
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Ballroom East

Design Debugging Practices based on Game Programming with Problem-Solving Approach

Poster/Demo ID: 45208
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    Chiung-Fang Chiu
    National Chi Nan University

Abstract: The objective of this study is to design debugging practices based on game programming with problem-solving approach to facilitate the teaching of debugging for novice programmers. The programing errors which novice programmers frequently committed were involved in the Scratch game programs. Worksheets containing problem-solving approach were designed to guide students how to apply debugging strategies to find these errors and correct them. The debugging practices include the programming concepts of variable assignments, Boolean statements, If statements and Loop statements. A quasi-experiment involving 133 senior high school students participated in this study. Sixty-four students from two classes were assigned to the experimental group and 69 from the other two classes to the control group. All participants used the same Scratch game bugged programs to practice the fundamental debugging strategies. However, students in the experimental group were guided by worksheets which app

Presider: Babak Khosravifar, Mentorina Research and Development Inc.

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