JavaScript Development Environment for Programming Education Using Smartphones

A development environment that allows programming at any time or place is required for supporting programming education. Currently, smartphones are more popular than personal computers. Therefore, if a development environment for smartphones is available then students can learn to program in a normal room, with no personal computer, or on the way to school. A browser-based development environment can be realized using JavaScript as a learning language. In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a JavaScript development environment. Our development environment is suitable for smartphones and is easy to use even with a small screen.