College Students’ Computational Thinking During the Mobile App Programing Process

• In Event: Towards student independence
  In Roundtable Session: Towards student independence-D&D

Short Description

In this study, we examined college students’ use of computational thinking through mobile app coding activities in a college-level elective course. The computational concepts of sequence, loops, parallelism, events, conditionals, operators are found in the codes of all five student-created apps. Computational practices such as problem analysis, communicating and collaborating are also evidenced in the problem-solving processes and artifacts. We will present specific visual programming block-codes as examples to showcase students’ CT during the presentation.

Authors

• Presenter: Yu-Chang Hsu, Boise State University

• Contributor: Yu-Hui Ching, Boise State University