Table 4 List of interview questions

pre

1. What comes to mind when you hear the word “coding”?

2. Have you done coding before? Can you tell me about it?

3. Are you interested in coding? Why or why not?

4. What do you think coding can do? What do you want to do with coding?

5. What kind of jobs do you think involve coding? Can you provide a couple of examples?

6. Do you think scientists do coding in work? Why or why not?

post

1. What do you think you have learned from the smart greenhouse project?

2. Could you tell me how your greenhouse works?

3. Can you tell me about a problem you ran into while you were coding? How did you fix that problem?

4. Now you have completed the project, do you see yourself wanting to learn more about coding? Why?

5. What else do you think you can do using the science and coding you have learned?

6. When you heard that you were going to do a coding project, what did you think? Has this perception changed? Why or why not?

7. Do you want to take your greenhouse home? Why? What else would you like to do with it?

8. Do you think scientists do coding in work? Why or why not?

9. Did you tell anyone at home about the project? If yes, who? How did you describe it to them?

follow-up

1. How, if at all, did the project make you feel engaged, in thinking, feeling, and doing?

2. Which people, documents, etc., did you think were useful supports? Which provided too much or too little support?

3. What practices of computation, engineering, and science did you do? How much were those practices separate (one-at-a-time), and how much were those practices together (more-than-one-at-a-time)?