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First Programming Language: Visual or Textual?
Mark Noone, Aidan Mooney
In modern day society, the ability to code is a highly desirable skill. So much so that the current supply from third level institutes across the world does not meet the high deman…
Visual and Textual Programming Languages: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Mark Noone, Aidan Mooney
It is well documented, and has been the topic of much research, that Computer Science courses tend to have higher than average drop out rates at third level. This is a problem that…
Computational Thinking in Education: Where does it Fit? A systematic literary review
James Lockwood, Aidan Mooney
Computational Thinking (CT) has been described as an essential skill which everyone should learn and can therefore include in their skill set. Seymour Papert is credited as concret…
Using an innovative assessment approach on a real-world group based software project
Susan Bergin, Aidan Mooney
Currently, there is a lack of practical, real-world projects on Computer Science (CS) courses at Maynooth University. Generally CS undergraduate modules are composed of 24 hours of…
A neurofeedback system to promote learner engagement
James Lockwood, Susan Bergin
This report describes a series of experiments that track novice programmer's engagement during two attention based tasks. The tasks required participants to watch a tutorial video…