Evaluation of student attitudes to learning the Java language

Authors:
Michael Madden;Desmond Chambers
Affiliations:
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland;National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Venue:
PPPJ '02/IRE '02 Proceedings of the inaugural conference on the Principles and Practice of programming, 2002 and Proceedings of the second workshop on Intermediate representation engineering for virtual machines, 2002
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The Java Programming Language is now very well established and is, frequently the first Object-Oriented Language that is taught to students. This paper discusses the results of a wide-ranging survey conducted by the authors to help identify aspects of the language that students perceive to be most difficult. It also reports on the teaching methods and other resources that students find most effective.