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média com 99% de confiança. Palavras-Chave: Aprendizagem de Programação. Simuladores de Arquitetura de Computadores. Compiladores. Abstract Teaching introductory programming generally involves an abstraction level which is sometimes difficult for students with learning disabilities especially in the initial programming. Considering this, a family of processors, called BIP – Basic Instruction-set Processor, was developed in order to reduce the abstraction involved in fundamental concepts of programming and also to promote an interdisciplinary approach for teaching initial concepts on the first year of Computer Science undergraduate courses. This paper presents an integrated development environment (IDE) which enables the development, implementation and simulation of programs written in Portugol (a Portuguese-based programming language), linking them to the architecture of the BIP family. The tool was used in an introductory programming course of the first year of computer science by a sample of 66 students (experimental group). The same test was applied to a control group of students (n=49) and to the experimental group. The result point to an increase of 1.928 points in average in the experimental group with a confidence of 99%. Keywords: Programming Learning. Computer Architecture Simulators. Compilers. Vieira, Raabe e Zeferino 1 Introdução As disciplinas da área de Arquitetura e Organização de Computadores são fundamentais na formação de…