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End-User Experiences of Visual and Textual Programming Environments for Arduino

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End-User Development (IS-EUD 2013)

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Arduino is an open source electronics platform aimed at hobbyists, artists, and other people who want to make things but do not necessarily have a background in electronics or programming. We report the results of an exploratory empirical study that investigated the potential for a visual programming environment to provide benefits with respect to efficacy and user experience to end-user programmers of Arduino as an alternative to traditional text-based coding. We also investigated learning barriers that participants encountered in order to inform future programming environment design. Our study provides a first step in exploring end-user programming environments for open source electronics platforms.

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  1. City University London, UK

    Tracey Booth & Simone Stumpf

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, 2300, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Yvonne Dittrich

  2. Oregon State University, 97331-5501, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Margaret Burnett

  3. InterMedia, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Mørch

  4. University of California, 92697-3440, Irvine, CA, USA

    David Redmiles

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Booth, T., Stumpf, S. (2013). End-User Experiences of Visual and Textual Programming Environments for Arduino. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A., Redmiles, D. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_4

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