Learning repetition structures in programming

Authors:
M. J. Marcelino
Affiliations:
University of Coimbra - Coimbra, Portugal
Venue:
ITiCSE '05 Proceedings of the 10th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A study conducted at the Universidade de Coimbra with first year students of programming classes of the Electrical Engineering and Computers Degree is described. The main objective of the study was to investigate how students learn the crucial aspect of control structures in programming, namely repetition structures, and if there are patterns of learning behavior that emerge.