A web aid to help understand key concepts of programming

The new computing curriculum will be introduced in the UK during Autumn 2014. As in all subject areas pupils enter with different levels of understanding. Pupils will be expected to understand what algorithms are and how to write and debug computer programs. By the age of eleven they will be expected to design, use and evaluate programs modelling real-world problems.

This research and practical report reviews data collected from university lecturers and students and also evaluates existing internet based solutions. The report explores how a dynamically content managed website could be used as an aid to help the understanding of programming concepts, by emulating principles encountered within adaptive hypermedia systems; Providing an individual learning experience as opposed to a “one solution fits all” approach to teaching computing.