Programming For Graphic Designers: Building A Project-Based Interactive Online Textbook Around Video Worked Examples

This work-in-progress paper reports on the preliminary research that has informed the development of an interactive digital textbook for use in intermediate level programming courses in design schools. The audience of the textbook is design students with prior programming experience and familiarity with basic programming concepts, subsidiarily design school educators who will be teaching programming. In its current form, the textbook consists of projects presented as Video Worked Examples with subgoal labeling and supplementary activities that support an increasing progression in learning levels. This paper contributes useful insights on decision-making processes and the choice of theoretical and methodological foundations for the textbook. These insights can be useful to others who wish to fill the shortage that currently exists in the availability of educational materials for design students with intermediate level programming skills.