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Visual Programming Languages for Programmers with Dyslexia: An Experiment
Year:2018

Research Areas
  • Engineering,
  • Information technology and adata processing

Information
Abstract
A survey of 351 programmers, including people with dyslexia, has found that programmers with dyslexia are 33.4% more productive if they use a visual programming language. This paper presents important aspects of the profile of programmers with dyslexia, introduces the most commonly used textual programming languages (TPL) by a group of programmers, classifies the 31 most common visual programming languages (VPL) for the study group, and analyzes some technical and facilitation features to support the needs of programmers with dyslexia, in five of these languages that have been considered current and relevant for the purposes of this research. The visual programming language Alice has been selected as the language to be included in a comparison experiment with the Java programming language. Results of the experiment establish preferences and levels of effectiveness of Alice against the other language, according to the performance of a group of programmers who participated in the experiment.
International
Si
Congress
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)
960
Place
Amsterdam, Holanda
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
978-1-5386-9156-4
10.1109/eScience.2018.00030
Start Date
29/10/2018
End Date
01/11/2018
From page
145
To page
155
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science)
Participants

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Investigación en Tecnología Informática y de las Comunicaciones: CETTICO
  • Departamento: Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software