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access icon openaccess Visual programming language environment for different IoT and robotics platforms in computer science education

This is an open access article published by the IET, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence and Chongqing University of Technology under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Received 05/12/2017, Accepted 31/01/2018, Revised 26/01/2018, Published 02/05/2018

This study presents the authors’ recent research and application of a new visual programming language and its development environment: VIPLE (Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment) at Arizona State University (ASU). ASU VIPLE supports a variety of IoT devices and robots based on an open architecture. Based on computational thinking, VIPLE supports the integration of engineering design process, workflow, fundamental programming concepts, control flow, parallel computing, event-driven programming, and service-oriented computing seamlessly into a wide range of curricula, such as introduction to computing, introduction to engineering, service-oriented computing, and software integration. It is actively used at ASU in several sections of FSE 100: Introduction to Engineering and in CSE 446: Software Integration and Engineering, as well as in several other universities worldwide.

Inspec keywords: Internet of Things; programming languages; visual programming; robot programming; computer science education

Other keywords: fundamental programming concepts; IoT devices; parallel computing; CSE 446; Arizona State University; software integration; robotics platforms; visual IoT-robotics programming language environment; event-driven programming; computer science education; visual programming language environment; development environment; Software Integration and Engineering; ASU VIPLE

Subjects: Programming languages; Computing education and training; Software engineering techniques; Visual programming

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