Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high risk students who used Alice achieved a much higher retention rate[2].
[1]http://www.alice.org/publications/EvaluatingTheEffectiveness...
[2]http://www.alice.org
Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high risk students who used Alice achieved a much higher retention rate[2].
[1]http://www.alice.org/publications/EvaluatingTheEffectiveness...
[2]http://www.alice.org