Electronic books for programming education: a review and future prospects

Programming is a suitable field to design electronic books with a laboratory component, where the programming task is exercised in the theoretical context provided by the book. The goal of the paper is to make a review of current electronic books for programming education and identify future lines of research. First, we review a number of software tools and electronic books for programming education in order to give a broad vision of technological opportunities in programming education. Later, a comparative analysis of such electronic books is made. Finally, based on this overview and analysis, we identify aspects that either are currently poorly supported or are a subject of active research, thus constituting potential areas for future improvement.

R. Martínez-Unanue, M. Paredes-Velasco, C. Pareja-Flores, J. Urquiza-Fuentes, and J. Á. Velázquez-Iturbide. 2002. Electronic books for programming education: a review and future prospects. In Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE ’02). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 34-38. DOI=10.1145/544414.544426