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Testing first year programming studentsSaeed Dehnadi and Richard Bornat describe a test for programming aptitude:
Based on their experience, there are essentially three groups in an introductory programming class, those who want to learn more faster, those who manage to pass and those who still have no idea what programming is all about once the course is completed. It seems it is not the teachers fault either,or as they put it: The cause isn't to be found in inappropriate teaching materials or methods either. Essentially, the computer science community has tried everything (see section 2) and nothing works. Graphics, artificial intelligence, logic programming languages, OOP, C, C++, PROLOG, Miranda: you name it, we've tried it. We've tried conventional teaching, lab-based learning by discovery and remedial classes. We've tried enthusiasm and cold-eyed logical clarity. Nothing makes a difference. Even the UK's attempt in the 1980s to teach the whole UK population to program on the BBC Micro ran into the sand. Food for thought. By Peter A Jonsson at 2007-07-28 20:16 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 10441 reads
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