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Jaroslaw Pawel Adamiak – Open Praxis, 2024
The academic success of first-year students' learning in science faculties is by no means assured, especially in an Open Distance Learning setting with its limited number of face-to-face encounters between students and lecturers or tutors. Therefore, such encounters should be highly efficient in view of the considerable amount of knowledge…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Education
Lukose, Jose; Mammen, Kuttickattu John – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2018
Research reports using global data show that the failure rates in introductory programming courses average about 32%. As learners from schools join the university and enrol for different courses, they find the sudden transformation quite challenging. This makes it more challenging for first year university students, especially in difficult courses…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Introductory Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education
Schoeman, Marthie; Gelderblom, Helene; Muller, Helene – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
Program visualization (PV) is one of the approaches to assist novices in introductory programming courses. We investigated the effect of a newly developed PV tool to teach tracing to first-year programming students at a South-African university. The tool takes the form of an interactive computer-based tutorial that teaches students how to draw…
Descriptors: Programming, Visualization, Distance Education, Educational Technology
Ranjeeth, S.; Naidoo, Ramu – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2007
Computer Programming forms the basis from which most students in the IS/IT discipline launch themselves into further endeavors in the discipline. However, statistical analysis of students' performances in programming related assessments tasks reveals that the mastery of computer programming skills is not easily acquired. This assertion is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computers, Programming, Introductory Courses