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Academic Paper Summary

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     This study uses learning activities to help students learn basic OOP concepts and address some misconceptions about object-oriented programming. As opposed to focusing only on the technical aspects of a programming language like C++, students can focus on the concepts that govern an object-oriented approach to programming. This study has two main aspects. The first aspect is how OOP concepts can be implemented with a block-based language, as well as the implementation of blocks in programming languages. In addition, Blockly -OOP has been evaluated for student learning with promising results that warrant further research. According to the results, students learn OOP concepts more effectively with Blockly -OOP than with C++. Students need a text language to learn OOP concepts in CS2. However, using a block-based language as a stepping stone can be valuable. Block-based languages can affect students' learning of OOP concepts differently depending on how they correct sel...

Software Example: Visual Studio Code

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  (Flaticon.com, 2022) In this post, I will briefly show you how to use Visual Studio Code to display an HTML (HyperText Markup Language) file with a linked CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) file in the browser. This is how Visual Studio Code looks like right after launching. The first step we will take is to download extension to VS Code tool called "Live Server". Which will allow us to immediately check the results of our work with the code. The next step will be to create a folder on the desktop with our project to which we will first add the HTML file and then the CSS file. The HTML file will represent the skeleton of our website, to which we will attach the css file with website styles using one line of code in the ''head'' section. Next, in the ''body'' section, we will place a container for this presentation, and in it a small paragraph with the text "Welcome to my site". In the CSS file, we will define the style of our website, for...

Software Evaluation: Visual Studio Code

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  (Flaticon.com, 2022) Visual Studio Code often abbreviate as VS Code is powerful source code editor. It is working  cross platform such as Windows, macOS and Linux. Access to this powerful tool can be obtained from the official website . Default it comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js. Further, VS code has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other programming languages and runtimes such as Java, C++, C#, PHP, .NET, Go, Python (Microsoft, 2021). According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey VS code was ranked highest in terms of popularity (Stack Overflow, 2021). However Visual Studio Code was first announced on April 29, 2015, by Microsoft (Lardinois, 2015). The visual studio code community is huge, as evidenced by platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow.  Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft licensed distribution of 'Code - OSS' that includes Microsoft proprietary assets (such as icons) and features (Visual Studio Marketplace ...

Primary Research Questionnaire Analysis

The analysis presented below illustrates the collected data from the primary research survey of the general public. The purpose of this survey was to collect data on " Using the software in everyday life". The first question examined the age of the respondents. According to the presented data, the largest group of people are in the age group of 26 - 33 (36.4%). The second large group are people aged 19 - 25 (27.3 %). The next question examined the gender of the people who answered the questions. In this visual reference, it is easy to see that men were the most numerous. The following two questions are similar and were designed to show where people come from and where they currently live. To check-in, the next question is whether they believe that their lifestyle affects the use of the application. Most people come from Europe, as much as 58.3%. There is also another more extensive group of people who come from Africa, 25%. However, most respondents currently live in Europe (...