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The Handwriting Programming Language for Primary School: Aligning Computer Science Education with Established Teaching Practices
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Jérôme Brender; Laila El-Hamamsy; Christian Giang; Laura Mathex; Tanja Käser; Francesco Mondada – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
Generalist primary school computer science (CS) teachers are often reluctant to introduce CS activities that go beyond CS unplugged tasks. To address this challenge, we drew from constructive alignment principles to implement a new programming modality for primary school: the handwriting programming language (HPL). HPL brings programming…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods