Unraveling Sentiment Threads: An Analysis of Comment Sentiment and User Participation in Scratch Project Creation: Investigating the Impact of Comment Sentiment on the Creator's Activity on a Social Coding Platform

Although existing work demonstrates that the usage of Scratch strengthens programming skills, little is known about the effect of children encouraging or criticizing each other when programming on the development of their programming skills. To address this gap, we conducted a data analysis to reveal the correlation (or lack thereof) between the...