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Using cognitive load theory to select an environment for teaching mobile apps development

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posted on 2025-05-09, 11:52 authored by Raina Mason, Graham Cooper, Simon, Barry Wilks
After considering a number of environments for the development of apps for mobile devices, we have evaluated five in terms of their suitability for students early in their programming study. For some of the evaluation we devised an evaluation scheme based on the principles of cognitive load theory to assess the relative ease or difficulty of learning and using each environment. After briefly presenting the scheme, we discuss our results, including our findings about which mobile apps development environments appear to show most promise for early-level programming students.

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Source title

Proceedings of the 17th Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE 2015) [presented in Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 160]

Name of conference

ACE 2015: Seventeenth Australasian Computing Education Conference

Location

Sydney, N.S.W.

Start date

2015-01-27

End date

2015-01-30

Pagination

47-56

Publisher

Australian Computer Society

Place published

Sydney

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Science and Information Technology

School

School of Design, Communication and Information Technology

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