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WIPE: a programming environment for novices

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Vassilios Efopoulos,

Vassilios Dagdilelis,

Georgios Evangelidis,

Maya SatratzemiAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 37, Issue 3

Pages 113 - 117

https://doi.org/10.1145/1151954.1067479

Published: 27 June 2005 Publication History

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This paper presents an overview of the design principles and the evaluation of a new programming environment, WIPE (Web Integrated Programming Environment), designed specifically to teach novices the fundamentals of programming. The environment is designed for use in secondary education as a first programming course, in order to help students become familiar with the main programming concepts.

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WIPE: a programming environment for novices
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 37, Issue 3

September 2005

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ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1151954

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ITiCSE '05: Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
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