While functionality and correctness of code has traditionally been the main focus of
computing educators, quality aspects of code are getting increasingly more attention. High …

The recent shift in compulsory education from ICT-focused computing curricula to
informatics, digital literacy and computer science, has resulted in children being taught …

This paper presents a comprehensive survey on End-User Development for Human-Robot
Interaction, examining existing literature to validate findings and identify unexplored areas …

Working solutions to problems are not definitive end points. As a result, code that is
technically correct can still be treated as needing revising–a practice in computer …

Providing computational problems for enhancing students' abstraction skills and monitoring
how students make abstractions is difficult in block-based programming environments …

Block-based programming languages like SCRATCH have become increasingly popular as
introductory languages for novices. These languages are intended to be used with a …

Block-based programming languages like Scratch support learners by providing high-level
constructs that hide details and by preventing syntactically incorrect programs. Questions …

Context Nowadays, technical debt has become a very important issue in software project
management. The main mechanism to repay this debt is through refactoring. Refactoring …

Introducing computational thinking in primary school curricula implies that teachers have to
prepare appropriate lesson material. Typically this includes creating programming tasks …

Crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon MTurk provide access to a human workforce that
can be given tasks to complete online for a fee. In this article, we review studies in …