IMPROVING THE ENROLMENT RATE INTO COMPUTER SCIENCE AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF SCRATCH AND ALICE SOFTWARE AT BASIC EDUCATION LEVEL

¹Bashir Idris & ²Ibrahim Gambo Auta

¹Federal College of Education (Tech),Gusau Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi

²Department of Computer Science, Waziri Umar Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi

Email: Edrisbashir@gmail.com, ockanya@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

It is gradually becoming an imperative for most people to have programming skills to aid them accomplish their daily jobs ranging from medicine to basic science, business and finance. Despite of this rapid growing need in computer programming profession the number of student enrolment into computer science program drastically reduced every year. This happened as a result of student having no prior knowledge of any programming language. Having no skill entails having less interest to take up the course as a carrier subject of interest. Scratch and Alice are part of the recent solution to these obstacles. This paper investigate how Scratch and Alice contributed in shaping the programming skills for kids using none-code or graphics programming in the form of drag-and-drop manner there by making the kid intrinsically and cognitively programming oriented.