Analyzing the learnability of childprogramming model, as a subcharacteristic of the usability

Abstract

ChildProgramming is a process model which teaches software programming to children, and its goal is to get computational thinking skills. This model was proposed in the year 2012 and has been implemented in some educational institutions to the programming teaching which is getting significant results. In the investigation and consolidation have performed different case studies where the teachers have manifested some difficulties in the moment of interpret and apply the model in their classroom. However, ChildProgramming is not a software product, but a process, this paper propose to evaluate the learning capacity that offers the model to its end users, as one the subcharacteristics of the proposed usability in the norm ISO/IEC 25010. For this evaluation is defined some metrics related to familiarity, common language, consistency and intuition, which in this work are adapted to the evaluation of a software process with purpose of identify improvements in the structure and description of the ChildProgramming model.