After considering a number of environments for the development of apps for mobile devices, we have evaluated five in terms of their suitability for students early in their programing study. For some of the evaluation we devised an evaluation scheme based on the principles of cognitive load theory to assess the relative ease or difficulty of learning and using each environment. After briefly presenting the scheme, we discuss our results, including our findings about which mobile apps development environments appear to show most promise for early-level programming students.
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Using Cognitive Load Theory to select an environment for teaching mobile apps development
Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2015), Vol.160, pp.47-56
The Conference in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series
17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (Sydney, Australia, 27/01/2015 - 30/01/2015)
2015
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- Title
- Using Cognitive Load Theory to select an environment for teaching mobile apps development
- Creators
- Raina Mason (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityGraham Cooper (Author) - Southern Cross UniversityBarry Wilks (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2015), Vol.160, pp.47-56
- Conference
- 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (Sydney, Australia, 27/01/2015 - 30/01/2015)
- Series
- The Conference in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series
- Publisher
- Australain Computer Society; Sydney, Australia
- Identifiers
- 1664; 991012820566902368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2015, Australian Computer Society, Inc. This paper appeared at the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2015), Sydney, Australia, January 2015. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 160. D D’Souza and K Falkner, Eds. Reproduction for academic, not-for-profit purposes permitted provided this text is included.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Information Technology; School of Business and Tourism; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding