International journal of advanced smart convergence

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Robot-based Coding Education System with Step by Step Software Training

  • Lee, Jun (Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Mokwon University) ;
  • Seo, Yong-Ho (Department of Intelligent Robot Engineering, Mokwon University)
  • Received : 2019.10.29
  • Accepted : 2019.11.11
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

Recently, the perception of software education, which had been considered as a field of education for programmers in this field, is changing in response to recent changes with the trend of 4th industrial revolution. Major counties competitively invest in software education and the target age group for software education is also on the decline. However, the traditional text-based programing languages such as JAVA and Python, have a high entry barrier. To address the shortcoming, a variety of methods have been recently proposed for the effective software education for kindergarten and elementary school student. In this paper, we propose a robot-based coding education system with steps for coding education for effective software education. The proposed method is divided into three stages, depending on the level of the student being trained in the software coding education to interact with robots. The proposed stages consists of unplugged coding using a remote control, coding using a graphic-based programming language and text- based coding. We conducted an experiment with performing separate missions while providing propoer tutorials for each stage to verify the effectiveness of the proposed software education system.

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