SICAS2: Interactive Tool to Support Programming Learning

Abstract

In the last decades the area of informatics had an exponential growth. This led to a high number of young students being attracted to higher education courses in the IT area. However, many students face difficulties when they have to learn programming. This often causes frustration and even dropout for many students. This paper presents a tool designed to help to mitigate some student’s difficulties. It is a Moodle plugin that allows students to build programs using flowcharts and see the animation of the execution of those programs. The main objective is to facilitate the comprehension and application of basic programming concepts in programs that may solve common introductory problems.