Teaching Programming Strategies Explicitly to Novice Programmers : Can the way we teach strategies improve novice outcomes?

ISBN-13: 9783639166927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Michael De Raadt

Opis

The traditional approach to training noviceprogrammers has been to provide explicit instructionin a programming language and its features, but torely on implicit instruction of programmingstrategies (the means of solving programmingproblems). Studies, reported in literature, havediscovered universally poor results on standardisedtests for novices studying under this traditionalapproach. It was proposed that programming strategiesshould be made explicit in the instruction andassessment of novice programmers. A series ofexperiments was conducted that focused on explicitlyteaching specific programming strategies to noviceprogrammers. These experiments demonstrated thatexplicit incorporation may improve outcomes fornovices and potentially improve the potential ofexpert programmers in future.

O autorze

Michael de Raadt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Michael's research focuses on teaching problem solving skills to novice programmers. Michael is also interested in online teaching and assessment including electronic peer review.