Ensino-aprendizagem de programação: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

International initiatives highlight the importance of teaching programming in elementary education, not only for training new professionals in the technology area, but in other areas too, such as engineering and mathematics. However, there are still many challenges to implementing this idea. In this perspective, this article presents a systematic review of the literature related to approaches to learning and teaching programming, and that was published over the last five years (2009-2013) in four major national events in the area (the Brazilian Symposium on Informatics in Education, the Workshop on Computers in School, Workshop on Computer Education and the Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment) and in two major national journals in the area (the Brazilian Journal of Computing in Education Magazine and the New Technologies in Education Journal). The observed results show that researchers prefer to develop tools for teaching algorithms and their research focus mainly on teaching programming to college education in a classroom teaching context, mostly carried out by researchers located in the Northeast, South and Southeast of Brazil. The results also show that publications in this research area have increased in 2013.