TY  - EJOU
AU  - Gul, Shahla 
AU  - Asif, Muhammad 
AU  - Nawaz, Zubair 
AU  - Aziz, Muhammad Haris 
AU  - Khurram, Shahzada 
AU  - Saleem, Muhammad Qaiser 
AU  - Habib, Elturabi Osman Ahmed 
AU  - Shafiq, Muhammad 
AU  - Sheta, Osama E. 

TI  - Sustainable Learning of Computer Programming Languages Using Mind Mapping
T2  - Intelligent Automation \& Soft Computing

PY  - 2023
VL  - 36
IS  - 2
SN  - 2326-005X

AB  - In the current era of information technology, students need to learn modern programming languages efficiently. The art of teaching/learning programming requires many logical and conceptual skills. So it’s a challenging task for the instructors/learners to teach/learn these programming languages effectively and efficiently. Mind mapping is a useful visual tool for establishing ideas and connecting them to solve problems. This research proposed an effective way to teach programming languages through visual tools. This experimental study uses a mind mapping tool to teach two programming environments: Text-based Programming and Blocks-based Programming. We performed the experiments with one hundred and sixty undergraduate students of two public sector universities in the Asia Pacific region. Four different instructional approaches, including block-based language (BBL), text-based languages (TBL), mind map with text-based language (MMTBL) and mind mapping with block-based (MMBBL) are used for this purpose. The results show that instructional approaches using a mind mapping tool to help students solve given tasks in their critical thinking are more effective than other instructional techniques.
KW  - Text programming; blocks programming; novice programmer

DO  - 10.32604/iasc.2023.032494