{"id":531,"date":"2017-11-04T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/?p=531"},"modified":"2017-11-04T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:59:03","slug":"c-vieira-a-j-magana-ml-falk-re-garcia-writing-in-code-comments-to-self-explain-in-computational-science-and-engineering-education-acm-transactions-on-computing-education-toce-17417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/ComputationalMaterials\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/c-vieira-a-j-magana-ml-falk-re-garcia-writing-in-code-comments-to-self-explain-in-computational-science-and-engineering-education-acm-transactions-on-computing-education-toce-17417\/","title":{"rendered":"C Vieira, A J Magana, ML Falk, RE Garc\u00eda “Writing in-code comments to self-explain in computational science and engineering education.”\u00a0ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 17(4):17, 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

C Vieira, A J Magana, ML Falk, RE Garc\u00eda “Writing in-code comments to self-explain in computational science and engineering education<\/a>.”\u00a0ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 17(4):17, 2017.<\/p>\n

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This article presents two case studies aimed at exploring the use of self-explanations in the context of computational science and engineering (CSE) education. The self-explanations were elicited as students\u2019 in-code comments of a set of worked-examples, and the cases involved two different approaches to CSE education: glass box and black box. The glass-box approach corresponds to a programming course for materials science and engineering students that focuses on introducing programming concepts while solving disciplinary problems. The black-box approach involves the introduction of Python-based computational tools within a thermodynamics course to represent disciplinary phenomena. Two semesters of data collection for each case study allowed us to identify the effect of using in-code comments as a self-explanation strategy on students\u2019 engagement with the worked-examples and students\u2019 perceptions of these activities within each context. The results suggest that the use of in-code comments as a self-explanation strategy increased students\u2019 awareness of the worked-examples while engaging with them. The students\u2019 perceived uses of the in-code commenting activities include: understanding the example, making a connection between the programming code and the disciplinary problem, and becoming familiar with the programming language syntax, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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