Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Computer science (CS) activities for young students are widely used, particularly visual programming environments.  investigated the use of the Scratch environment for teaching CS concepts to middle school students. In a previous article [Meerbaum-Salant et al. 2013],  reported on the extent to which the CS concepts re successfully learned. In this article,  look at the transition from studying CS with the visual Scratch environment in middle school to studying CS with a professional textual programming language (C# or Java) in secondary school.  found that the programming knowledge and experience of students who had learned Scratch greatly facilitated learning the more advanced material in secondary school: less time was needed to learn new topics, there re fer learning difficulties, and they achieved higher cognitive levels of understanding of most concepts (although at the end of the teaching process, there re no significant differences in achievements compared to students who had not studied Scratch). Furthermore, there was increased enrollment in CS classes, and students re observed to display higher levels of motivation and self-efficacy. This research justifies teaching CS in general and visual programming in particular in middle schools.
['Michal Armoni', 'Orni Meerbaum-Salant', 'Mordechai Ben-Ari']
I am writing a research paper on a idea From Scratch to “Real” Programming
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