Use of PSeInt in teaching programming: a case study.

The Introduction to Programming course is one of the most difficult subjects for the students in their first year of engineering career at Technological University of Panama.In introductory programming courses, students learn the logic for algorithm development. In these courses the usual methodology is to teach students the logic for the construction of algorithms in Spanish using paper, later in a second course a specific programming language is taught, usually C or Java. However, the syntax and instructions of the latter is in English. In this study, the use of PSeInt is analyzed as a support for teaching programming with syntax and instructions in Spanish.