Novice Programming Strategies

Marjahan Begum; Jacob Nørbjerg; Torkil Clemmensen

Novice Programming Strategies

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Abstract

This paper identifies novice programmer activities and their implications for the programming outcome. We investigate strategies, cognitive processes and behavior within interacting phases of programming: 1) understanding and design, 2) coding, and 3) debugging and testing. We envision that stronger novice programmers behave differently from weaker novice programmers during the programming process. We develop a questionnaire-based tool, the programming strategy questionnaire (PSQ), which we use to identify the activities novices employ during their development of a program, and we link the strategies to learning outcomes. Finally, we discuss how educators can use our findings to improve the education of novice programmers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research
Editors	Asli Y. Akbulut
Number of pages	16
Place of Publication	Atlanta, GA
Publisher	Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Publication date	2018
Article number	Paper 5
ISBN (Print)	9780692043110
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research - San Francisco, United States Duration: 12 Dec 2018 → 13 Dec 2018 http://ais-siged.org/

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Conference	2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	12/12/2018 → 13/12/2018
Internet address	http://ais-siged.org/

Keywords

Novice programmers
Programming strategies
Programming activities
Debugging strategies
Program understanding
Programming pedagogy

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Begum, M, Nørbjerg, J & Clemmensen, T 2018, Novice Programming Strategies. in AY Akbulut (ed.), Proceedings of the 2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research., Paper 5, Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), Atlanta, GA, 2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research, San Francisco, California, United States, 12/12/2018.

Novice Programming Strategies. / Begum, Marjahan; Nørbjerg, Jacob ; Clemmensen, Torkil.
Proceedings of the 2018 SIGED International Conference on Information Systems Education and Research. ed. / Asli Y. Akbulut. Atlanta, GA: Association for Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL), 2018. Paper 5.

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