Portugol IDE v3.x: A new environment to teach and learn computer programming

Abstract

Teaching of programming is crucial in every engineering course and particularly in computer courses. Students failure in this domain has led to the development of Portugol IDE, a tool for teaching/learning algorithms. This tool allows algorithms to be coded in mother tongue of portuguese students (portugol) or in flow diagrammatic language (flowchart) and its automatic execution. This paper presents generation 3.x of this tool and describes the advancements therein.