Estudo da aquisição de pensamento computacional por meio do uso do App Inventor em um curso de programação a distância

Abstract

Teaching programming is essential for developing abstraction and problem-solving skills in high school students and is related to the development of computational thinking. To facilitate the learning of programming concepts, block-based programming language tools have been developed in recent years, such as App Inventor. However, the scarcity of specialized teachers in the field poses a challenge to the popularization of teaching this type of content in conventional basic education, with distance education (DE) being one of the alternatives to overcome this problem. This monograph presents an evaluation conducted with students from public high schools in the state of Ceará, participants in the distance programming course called "Programmers Factory - Learning to Program with Games,"created through a partnership between the Demócrito Rocha Foundation and the Federal University of Ceará. In this course, the App Inventor platform was adopted for developing practical programming projects, and the evaluation proposed in this work was carried out through a rubric that relates programming fundamentals with levels of computational thinking development by analyzing the portfolios of practical exercises submitted by the students participating in the course, in order to evaluate the level of computational thinking (CT) acquisition in relation to the practical activities carried out by the students.