Abstract:

There is general agreement on the difficulty of teaching and learning programming. One of the key issues is the ways in which the participants teach and learn. Several reports in the literature indicate that the learning experience is enhanced when students learn to program by working together. This paper describes the architecture and initial implementation of a tool suite called ReCOOP: a real-time collaborative tool with communication supports to aid teaching and learning programming through the practice of party programming. This tool is being implemented as an Eclipse plug-in that provides a number of features in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment. Collaborative editor, session recorder, screen share, video conference and chat features will enable participants to learn programming collaboratively. Once its implementation is finished it is expected that the tool will be valuable in aiding the process of teaching and learning programming.

Keywords:

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Object-Oriented Programming, Communication Supports, Social Supports, Party Programming.