Amirita Dewani

Work place: Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

E-mail: amirita@faculty.muet.edu.pk

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Research Interests: Software Creation and Management, Software Development Process, Data Mining

Biography

Ms. Amirita Dewani is currently a faculty member in Department of Software Engineering, Mehran UET, Jamshoro, Sindh Pakistan. She has received her M.E degree from Mehran UET, Jamshoro. Her research interests include Data mining, Machine learning, Software Engineering and Global Software Development. She has written various journal and conference articles at local and international level.

Author Articles
A Web based Approach for Teaching and Learning Programming Concepts at Middle School Level

By Sania Bhatti Amirita Dewani Sehrish Maqbool Mohsin Ali Memon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2019.04.06, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2019

One of the major concerns in teaching and learning programming concepts is the complexity of syntax and precision of semantics of programming languages. Traditional teaching methods are static and passive i.e. they do not engage students in an interactive manner thereby making it difficult for students to grasp the contents and instructors to convey the instruction. This obstacle even becomes challenging when programming courses are to be taught to beginners. To cope up with this challenge, this work has proposed and prototyped a system that is aimed to focus on students at their middle level of education. Multimedia technology i.e. videos have been used to plunge the students in an interactive environment where learning JavaScript programming becomes fun instead of a mind-burden. Visualization concepts have been incorporated to provide visual learning for variables, loops, control structures, functions etc. This application is dynamic in nature that is user can not only understand the programming concepts but can also run the codes using code panel. The designed system has been tested to ensure the functionality, performance and feedback from the targeted users as discussed in results section.

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