BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Sept. 9 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:
Dr. Guangming Xing and Dr. Huanjing Wang, both Professors of Computer Science in the WKU School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, have been awarded a $305,326 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a tool designed to transform how students learn introductory programming.
The three-year project, titled "Improving Conceptual Understanding in Introductory Programming through an Interactive Flowchart-to-Code Environment," addresses high drop-fail-withdraw rates in introductory Computer Science courses. By focusing on algorithmic reasoning before code syntax, the project targets barriers that lead many students to step away fro...