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Manuel B. Garcia – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The global shortage of skilled programmers remains a persistent challenge. High dropout rates in introductory programming courses pose a significant obstacle to graduation. Previous studies highlighted learning difficulties in programming students, but their specific weaknesses remained unclear. This gap exists due to the predominant focus on the…
Descriptors: Programming, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education, Mastery Learning
Sharon Gumina; Karen Patten; John Gerdes – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This paper is an experiential report describing the faculty and student experiences and knowledge gained from developing an Internet of Things (IoT) course within an Information Technology (IT) Department at a large southeastern United States public university. The paper contributes insights gained developing the introductory IoT course, and it…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Public Colleges
Amanpreet Kaur; Kuljit Kaur Chahal – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Research so far has overlooked the contribution of students' noncognitive factors to their performance in introductory programming in the context of personalized learning support. This study uses learning analytics to design and implement a Dashboard to understand the contribution of introductory programming students' learning motivation,…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Introductory Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education
Malik, Khalid Mahmood; Zhu, Meina – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The need for computer science (CS) education, especially computer network education, is increasing. However, the challenges of teaching students with diverse backgrounds and engaging them in hands-on activities to apply theories into practices exist in CS education. The study addressed the challenges by using project-based learning (PBL) and…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Computer Science Education
Gonzalez, Fernando – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The study of robotics has become a popular course among many educational programs, especially as a technical elective. A significant part of this course involves having the students learn how to program the movement of a robotic arm by controlling the velocity of its individual joint motors, a topic referred to as joint programming. They must…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulation
Mohamed, Abdallah – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
With the increased reliance on technology, computer programming has emerged as an essential skill that is interesting to many audiences beyond merely computer scientists. As a result, many students from various disciplines take first-year computer science courses. This led to classrooms with a lot of diversity in student motivation, backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Heterogeneous Grouping, Ability, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses
Ezeamuzie, Ndudi O. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Several instructional approaches have been advanced for learning programming. However, effective ways of engaging beginners in programming in K-12 are still unclear, especially among low socioeconomic status learners in technology-deprived learning environments. Understanding the learning path of novice programmers will bridge this gap and explain…
Descriptors: Programming, Constructivism (Learning), Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
Goudouris, Cesar; de Abreu Mol, Antônio Carlos; Legey, Ana Paula; de Carvalho, Paulo Victor Rodrigues; Freire, Joana Loureiro; Martins, Bianca Maria Rego; Jatobá, Alessandro – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Teaching computer programming to children and adolescents has become popular in recent years. This popularity has resulted in increased research into techniques for teaching introductory programming using visual languages, especially block-based languages. This study aims to explore new possibilities for teaching programming by adopting a hybrid…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Science Education, Programming, Teaching Methods
Aimicheva, G.; Kopeyev, Zh.; Ordabayeva, Zh.; Tokzhigitova, N.; Akimova, S. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The article is devoted to the issues of teaching mobile application development and, as a consequence, training of highly qualified in-demand mobile developers. Nowadays, training professional mobile developers is a crucial task all over the world. The researchers emphasize the complexity of mobile application development associated with its…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Undergraduate Students
Malik, Sohail Iqbal; Mathew, Roy; Al-Nuaimi, Rim; Al-Sideiri, Abir; Coldwell-Neilson, Jo – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Problem solving skills are considered an integral part of grasping the precise concepts of the programming domain for novices in introductory programming (IP) courses. But these skills are mostly covered only in early lectures of such courses or are included in just a few early chapters of some relevant textbooks. Consequently, high failure and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Skill Development, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
Malik, Sohail Iqbal; Coldwell-Neilson, Jo – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
High failure and drop-out rates from introductory programming courses continue to be of significant concern to computer science disciplines despite extensive research attempting to address the issue. In this study, we include the three entities of the didactic triangle, instructors, students and curriculum, to explore the learning difficulties…
Descriptors: Programming, Barriers, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes
Xinogalos, Stelios – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Designing and deploying programming courses is undoubtedly a challenging task. In this paper, an attempt to analyze important aspects of a sequence of two courses on imperative-procedural and object-oriented programming in a non-CS majors Department is made. This analysis is based on a questionnaire filled in by fifty students in a voluntary…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Programming, Computer Science, Educational Strategies
Xinogalos, Stelios; Satratzemi, Maya; Malliarakis, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Teaching and learning programming constitutes a challenge. Although several teaching approaches and programming tools have been proposed, it seems that they have limited impact on classroom practice. This article investigates students' perceptions on five educational programming environments that are widely used and the features that any…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Introductory Courses, Student Attitudes