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Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous, with machine learning (ML) systems – rooted in algorithms and statistical models – playing a pivotal role in societal advancement. Nevertheless, given their complexity, less-experienced ...

This work explores the potential of Visual Programming Languages (VPLs) and no-code platforms to foster participation among users with limited computing experience in the design of ML-based systems. Conducting expert-based testing of the PyFlowML ...

Pure Data (PD), a data-flow based visual programming language utilized for music and sound synthesis, remains underexplored in software engineering research. Existing literature fails to address the nuanced programming practices within PD, prompting the ...

Velo is a learning experience that combines robotics and simulation to help learners understand and apply a simple yet powerful programming model inspired by Braitenberg vehicles. In this model, programs are constructed only by making connections ...

Reflex-in is a sound installation that uses brain-wave streams to create music composition within the Web environment in real time. The work incorporates various state-of-the-art Web technologies, including Web Audio, WebSocket, WebAssembly, and WebGL.

Projectional editors show promise for a variety of use cases, for example in language composition and domain specific projections. To allow efficient interactions within a projectional editor, it is necessary for the editor to clearly communicate the ...

Recently, Visual Programming Languages (VPLs) have been applied to a wide variety of domains ranging, usually for users lacking traditional programming skills. However, there have not been yet any concrete attempts to harness VPLs in the domain of ...

Snap! is blocks-based programming language that inherits a design and vocabulary from Scratch, but has been extended with support for user-defined functions, and robust built-in libraries. The Snap! Cloud software has been running for over 5 years and ...

The purpose of this paper is to present a project that provides a framework to build educational robotics kit with low cost components and interface the kit with a visual programming language. A robotics kit is inaccessible to many third world schools ...

The transition from commonly used block-based environments to traditional text-based programming systems presents an educational challenge. Solutions to this problem tend to be either purely pedagogical, focusing on developing educational frameworks to ...

Engaging underrepresented populations of women and minorities in Computer Science (CS) represents our greatest untapped resource for increasing the STEM workforce. In recent years, tremendous efforts have been geared towards developing learning ...

This paper presents a visual programming model with its entire flow starting from the visual program creation to the execution of the program on the target system. The introduced visual programming model is developed targeting modular hardware systems ...

The availability of embedded, digital systems has led to a multitude of interconnected sensors and actuators being distributed among smart objects and built environments. Programming and understanding the behaviors of such systems can be challenging ...

Tunely and Pixly are web-based programming environments for media computation built using the Blockly visual programming editor library. These language environments were inspired by Georgia Tech's Media Computation approach and allow images (Pixly) and ...

Research results from computer science education show that pair programming is an effective teaching strategy on learning performance for computer science education in K-12. However, pair programming is not popularly used in K-12. One important issue is ...

Visual programming environments hold great potential for end-user programming, as they, e.g., aim at diminishing the syntactical burden and enabling a focus on the semantic aspects of coding. Hence, graphical approaches have gained attention in the ...

In Computer Science Education there is a tendency to implement active learning paradigms where students are the focus of the educational process. An instantiation of these learning methods are gaming environments. We present ProGames, a system for ...

We implemented single-session workshops using the Thymio-II--a small, self-contained robot designed for young students, and VPL--a graphical software development environment based upon event handling. Our goal was to investigate if the students could ...

Traditional behaviour change interventions are typically delivered with a fixed set of components, providing identical content to all participants in a trial. The disregard of personal differences often leads to weak effects and inconclusive results. ...

We are creating a visual programming environment for userprogrammers (who are not trained programmers) that they will use a few hours per week.. Because of this sporadic usage pattern, traditional code structuring approaches are both overkill and ...