Novice Students and Computer Programming: Toward Constructivist Pedagogy

Constructivist Pedagogy

This article constitutes a critique from the inside of constructivist pedagogy. It begins with a short history of constructivist pedagogy and its relationship to constructivist learning theory. It then addresses four issues in the ways in which constructivist pedagogy are being approached in research and practice. The first issue recommends more of a research focus on student learning in classr...

Computer System Resource Requirements of Novice Programming Students

When Chinese learners meet constructivist pedagogy online

International students have become an important part of many universities, both through the income they provide and the diversity they bring to student populations. Studying in a foreign country can be challenging, requiring students to adapt to unfamiliar educational cultures. With the integration of online technologies into higher education, this can raise an additional set of challenges. Thi...

Novice Programming Students' Learning of Concepts and Practise

Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a first programming course using an object-oriented language, it is of great importance that students get a good understanding of central concepts like object and class at an early stage of their education. We have, with a ...

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning for helping novice students acquire self-regulated problem-solving skills in computer programming

This paper presents the integration of a viewer and simulator of programs into an environment learning to support learning programming in initial classes of Engineering, Computing and Information Systems Courses. The integration proposed was based on a redesign of the architectureto combine resources avaliable in learning environment with an automatic evaluator of programs and with a new resour...