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Exploring Individual and Collaborative Storytelling in an Introductory Creative Coding Class

Computers and Society 2021-10-19 v1

Abstract

Teaching programming through storytelling is a popular pedagogical approach and an active area of research. However, most previous work in this area focused on K-12 students using block-based programming. Little, if any, work has examined the approach with university students using text-based programming. This experience report fills this gap. Specifically, we report our experience administering three storytelling assignments -- two individual and one collaborative -- in an introductory computer science class with 49 undergraduate students using p5.js\textit{p5.js}, a text-based programming library for creative coding. Our work contributes an understanding of students' experiences with the three authoring processes and a set of recommendations to improve the administration of and experience with individual and collaborative storytelling with text-based programming.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09252,
  title  = {Exploring Individual and Collaborative Storytelling in an Introductory Creative Coding Class},
  author = {Sangho Suh and Ken Jen Lee and Celine Latulipe and Jian Zhao and Edith Law},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09252},
  year   = {2021}
}
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