Some support for your thesis: Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high r

Some support for your thesis: Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high risk students who used Alice achieved a much higher retention rate[2]. [1]http://www.alice.org/publications/EvaluatingTheEffectivenessOfANewApproach.pdf http://www.alice.org/publications/EvaluatingTheEffectiveness... [2]http://www.alice.org http://www.alice.org