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most citedEffects of Hints on Debugging Scratch Programs: An Empirical Study with Primary School Teachers in Training

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cs.SE2025

Automatically Generating Questions About Scratch Programs

Florian Obermüller, Gordon Fraser

When learning to program, students are usually assessed based on the code they wrote. However, the mere completion of a programming task does not guarantee actual comprehension of…

cs.SE2025

LitterBox+: An Extensible Framework for LLM-enhanced Scratch Static Code Analysis

Benedikt Fein, Florian Obermüller, Gordon Fraser

Large language models (LLMs) have become an essential tool to support developers using traditional text-based programming languages, but the graphical notation of the block-based S…

cs.SE2024

A Block-Based Testing Framework for Scratch

Patric Feldmeier, Gordon Fraser, Ute Heuer +2

Block-based programming environments like Scratch are widely used in introductory programming courses. They facilitate learning pivotal programming concepts by eliminating syntacti…

cs.SE2021★ 7 cited

Effects of Hints on Debugging Scratch Programs: An Empirical Study with Primary School Teachers in Training

Luisa Greifenstein, Florian Obermüller, Ewald Wasmeier +2

Bugs in learners' programs are often the result of fundamental misconceptions. Teachers frequently face the challenge of first having to understand such bugs, and then suggest ways…

cs.SE2021

Guiding Next-Step Hint Generation Using Automated Tests

Florian Obermüller, Ute Heuer, Gordon Fraser

Learning basic programming with Scratch can be hard for novices and tutors alike: Students may not know how to advance when solving a task, teachers may face classrooms with many r…

cs.SE2021

LitterBox: A Linter for Scratch Programs

Gordon Fraser, Ute Heuer, Nina Körber +2

Creating programs with block-based programming languages like Scratch is easy and fun. Block-based programs can nevertheless contain bugs, in particular when learners have misconce…