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Park, Thomas H.; Dorn, Brian; Forte, Andrea – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Many people are first exposed to code through web development, yet little is known about the barriers beginners face in these formative experiences. In this article, we describe a study of undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory web development course taken by both computing majors and general education students. Using data collected…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Hypermedia, Web Sites
Mannila, Linda; Peltomaki, Mia; Salakoski, Tapio – Computer Science Education, 2006
In this paper, we present the results from a two-part study. We analyze 60 programs written by novice programmers aged 16-19 after their first programming course, in either Java or Python. The aim is to find difficulties independent of the language used, and such originating from the language. Second, we analyze the transition from a…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Syntax, Learning Problems

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