SHF: Small: User Studies to Improve Novice Programming

SHF：小型：改善新手编程的用户研究

• 批准号: 1116539
• 负责人: Kathryn Fisler
• 金额: $ 27.16万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1116539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; Small; User; Studies; Improve

The project will conduct a series of user studies to investigate the effectiveness of error reporting with novice programming students. The studies will focus on how students understand error messages, the effectiveness of source-code highlighting, and the impact of language syntax on how students process errors. The PIs will instrument a programming environment to collect fine-grained data on how students respond to errors. Such scientific user studies, particularly at a fine-grained level, are rare in this context; the methodologies and tools developed for this project will be applicable to future studies. Study results will be used to improve programming environments for novice programmers with regards to interfaces for reporting errors and linguistic choices regarding syntax and type systems. Findings will identify principles for others who design new programming tools for novices. Results will be disseminated through the DrRacket environment, which is in wide use in introductory computing courses in universities, high schools, and after-school programs for middle school students.

该项目将进行一系列的用户研究，以调查与初学编程的学生错误报告的有效性。这些研究将侧重于学生如何理解错误信息，源代码突出显示的有效性，以及语言语法对学生如何处理错误的影响。 PI将检测编程环境，以收集有关学生如何应对错误的细粒度数据。 在这方面，这种科学用户研究，特别是细粒度的研究，是罕见的;为这一项目开发的方法和工具将适用于今后的研究。研究结果将用于改善新手程序员的编程环境，包括报告错误的界面以及语法和类型系统的语言选择。 研究结果将确定原则，为其他人谁设计新的编程工具的新手。 结果将通过DrRacket环境传播，该环境广泛用于大学，高中和中学生课后课程的入门计算课程。