Around a decade ago, Salleh, Shukur, and Judi conducted a systematic review to analyse
research on programming teaching tools. They identified a range of interesting findings from …

The introduction of block-based programming has gradually changed the landscape of
programming education, particularly for school children. Block languages today, however …

As computer science is increasingly taught in secondary schools, tools need to integrate
block-based environments into learning platforms. This way, teachers can more effectively …

Background and Context: Empirical researchers have a long-standing tradition of explicitly
discussing the threats to and limitations of their research. In the past twenty years, these …

In this thesis, we studied how Programming language (PL) concepts could extend beyond
the classroom by improving self-efficacy with student-agency-focused teaching interventions …