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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142192
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2021/14219/
Costa Neto, Alvaro ;
Araújo, Cristiana ;
Pereira, Maria João Varanda ;
Henriques, Pedro Rangel
Programmers' Affinity to Languages
Abstract
Students face several challenges when learning computer programming languages, a central topic to acquire programming skills. While those challenges that present a predominantly technical nature have been intensely studied by researchers along the years, the ones that are concerned with qualitative, and personal aspects have not. Affinity to a programming language is one of the many personal factors that may contribute to surpass these qualitative aspects that describe the difficulties that students face. From this point-of-view, this paper presents a proposal for treating and studying programmers' affinity to programming languages as an important factor for learning computer programming. It also reports a preliminary questionnaire conducted on a master’s degree class at Universidade do Minho that showed that affinity may have a broader relation to learning computer programming than anticipated. Finally, a set of relevant questions are stated to compose a future inquiry aimed at deepening the knowledge on the affinity between programmers and languages, paving the way for following research.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{costaneto_et_al:OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.3,
author = {Costa Neto, Alvaro and Ara\'{u}jo, Cristiana and Pereira, Maria Jo\~{a}o Varanda and Henriques, Pedro Rangel},
title = {{Programmers' Affinity to Languages}},
booktitle = {Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021)},
pages = {3:1--3:7},
series = {Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-194-8},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2021},
volume = {91},
editor = {Henriques, Pedro Rangel and Portela, Filipe and Queir\'{o}s, Ricardo and Sim\~{o}es, Alberto},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2021/14219},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142192},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.3},
annote = {Keywords: Computer programming, Programming Languages, Affinity, Education, Learning}
}
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Computer programming, Programming Languages, Affinity, Education, Learning |
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Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021) |
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2021 |
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01.07.2021 |
