Falling Behind Early and Staying Behind When Learning to Program

Ahadi, A; Teague, D; Lister, RF

Falling Behind Early and Staying Behind When Learning to Program

Ahadi, A Teague, D Lister, RF

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Publisher:: Darwin College
Publication Type:: Conference
Citation:: 2014, pp. 77 - 88 (12)
Issue Date:: 2014-06-25

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dc.contributor.author	Ahadi, A
dc.contributor.author	Teague, D
dc.contributor.author	Lister, RF
dc.contributor.editor	du Boulay, B
dc.contributor.editor	Good, J
dc.date	2014-06-25
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-14T13:46:45Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06-25
dc.identifier.citation	2014, pp. 77 - 88 (12)
dc.identifier.issn	1749-9194
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/33414
dc.description.abstract	We have performed a study of novice programmers, using students at two different institutions, who were learning different programming languages. Influenced by the work of Dehnadi and Bornat, we gave our students a simple test, of our own devising, in their first three weeks of formal instruction in programming. That test only required knowledge of assignment statements. We found a wide performance difference among our two student cohorts. Furthermore, our test was a good indication of how students performed about 10 weeks later, in their final programming exam. We interpret our results in terms of our neo-Piagetian theory of how novices learn to program.
dc.publisher	Darwin College
dc.relation.ispartof	Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Conference
dc.subject	barriers to programming
dc.subject	novices
dc.subject	Neo-Piagetian
dc.subject	computer science education research
dc.title	Falling Behind Early and Staying Behind When Learning to Program
dc.type	Conference
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dc.location.activity	Brighton, United Kingdom
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
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Abstract:

We have performed a study of novice programmers, using students at two different institutions, who were learning different programming languages. Influenced by the work of Dehnadi and Bornat, we gave our students a simple test, of our own devising, in their first three weeks of formal instruction in programming. That test only required knowledge of assignment statements. We found a wide performance difference among our two student cohorts. Furthermore, our test was a good indication of how students performed about 10 weeks later, in their final programming exam. We interpret our results in terms of our neo-Piagetian theory of how novices learn to program.

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