O ensino de computação no ensino médio integrado à educação profissional: aliando App Inventor e BYOD

Abstract

Considering the need to teach Computing in Basic and Professional Education, especially in public schools, this article presents the results of a research carried out with high school students of a public school in Paraíba integrated to Basic and Professional Education. The objective was to investigate whether the development of mobile applications using the MIT App Inventor environment from the introduction of the basic concepts of programming contributes to the development of Computational Thinking skills. The results show that the development of mobile applications favors the construction of computational thinking skills, but there is a need for the implementation of the tool and the teaching of Computation according to the specific school years.