Teaching programming concepts through g...

Learning programming is becoming increasingly important in schools, especially due to the steady advance of digitalization. However, teachers often lack motivating and interesting learning material. For students, learning to program is often associated with learning complicated syntax and getting a simple text output. But programming could be pretty fun and motivating, straight from the beginning. In this workshop we present an approach to teaching and learning programming in an interactive, motivating and playful way. Our approach is based on our experience in teaching programming skills to children of all ages at the Informatics Lab at the University of Klagenfurt.