Befriending Computer Programming: A Proposed Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming

Befriending Computer Programming: A Proposed Approach to Teaching Introductory Programming

The problems encountered by students in first year computer programming units are a common concern in many universities including Victoria University. A fundamental component of a computer science curriculum, computer programming is a mandatory unit in a computing course. It is also one of the most feared and hated units by many novice computing students who, having failed or performed poorly i...

Teaching Introductory Programming

From the educational point of view, learning by mistake could be influential teaching method, especially for teaching/learning Computer Science (CS), and/or Information Technologies (IT). As learning programming is very difficult and hard task, perhaps even more difficult and extremely demanding job to teach novices how to make correct computers programs. The concept of design pedagogical patte...

An Approach to Teaching a Computer Programming Language

Programming in computer languages is an important class for university students in courses of computer science, electronics and information engineering. Moreover, there exists a programming class for even all students of a university. We have a programming class in C language, one of most popular computer languages, with a corresponding programming practice for our students who are first year o...

Teaching Introductory Programming with the Inverted Curriculum Approach, DIPLOMA THESIS

A New Approach to Teaching Programming

We have developed a new undergraduate programming course, which has so far been taught three times. This paper explains the motivations of the course, describes its content and organization, and reports on our experiences to date. The key innovations of the course are: an emphasis on design and the transition from problem to solution; separation of concepts into three programming paradigms; the...