Mohammad Hossein Ansari - Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University Qazvin, Iran
Faraz Jalili - Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University Qazvin, Iran
MohammadReza Shah Mohammadi - Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University Qazvin, Iran
Keyvan M Kambakhsh - Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University Qazvin, Iran

Nowadays teaching programming to people regardless of their age, profession and academic background is a promising goal. In fact, it could be regarded as a multifaceted mission both for training programming experts to solve real world problems and helping usual users to better interact with computerized world as well as gifting them ability of algorithmic thinking. Despite the mentioned benefits, the most important challenge toward achieving this goal is processes and mechanisms of teaching programming. It will be more challenging when it comes to teaching youngsters and who are unfamiliar with basics of computer science and information technology. The issue is considerable both from educational (content and approaches) and infrastructural (platform and technical) perspectives. Over the years, a notable amount of efforts have been made in this regard and many systems and platforms have been proposed. However, to our knowledge, none of them devoted to numerous Persian-speaking users. As the first try to fill the gap, we have developed and launched CodeLearnr1, the first interactive system to freely teach programming to Persian-speaking users. In this paper, the details, workflow and architecture of CodeLearnr as well as our vision and future works will be introduced.

component; Teaching programming; E-learning; Interactive learning platform; Online course