Development of Teaching Material on the Web for Programming Education and its Evaluation

Abstract

In authors programming practice class, students create animation as programming practice because this type of practice will make students interested in learning programming. This type of animation creation practice is well received by students. For the animation creation, we provide students with material such as fundamentals for creating basic animation, explanations, there of usage of the information, basic animation creation method, its application and its programming example in printed form (black and white). However, it is difficult for students to see the actual color or motion in printed material, because some of the animation is only shown on the screen and it is difficult for the students to actually reproduce the motion or examine the source program by themselves. In order to overcome those problems, we have developed teaching material on the web and actually used them in programming practice class. In this paper, we give the general description of programming practice, the objective of developing the teaching material on the web and guidelines, for it, a general description of the material, their its effectiveness.