Identifying cognitive abilities to improve CS1 outcome

Introductory programming courses entail students’ high failure and dropout rates. In an effort to tackle this problem, we carried out a qualitative study aiming to shed some light on the programming phase that is most challenging for students, in order to elicit the specific difficulties they experi...

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Main Author: Ambrósio, Ana (author)
Other Authors: Costa, Fábio Moreira (author), Almeida, Leandro S. (author), Franco, Amanda Helena Rodrigues (author), Macedo, Joaquim (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Computer Science 1
algorithmic reasoning
programming learning difficulties
cognitive abilities
Science & Technology
Social Sciences
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15932
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/15932

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http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15932

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