STUDY OF DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE BASIC COURSES OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN PANAMA
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https://doi.org/10.36825/RITI.06.11.003Keywords:
Teaching-Learning Programming, Programming Concepts, Resources for Programming, Programming Activities, Learning Environments, ProgrammingAbstract
The objective of this research is to know the perception of students with respect to the difficulty of learning programming, the usefulness of the resources and learning environments. The target population are students of the bachelor's degrees in computer science from the University of Panama, the Technological University of Panama and the Latina University of Panama. It is concluded that least helpful activities in obtaining new knowledge are conferences (38.4%) and study groups (21.5%). On the other hand, there are useful activities, the use of examples to be modified (77.6%) and classroom lectures (62.2%). The videos, examples programs and web tutorials are the most useful resources for students. Resources that require more reading are considered less useful. The most difficult programming concepts to learn are: pointers, objects, registers, recursion, dividing programs into module and creating functions or subprograms, that is coincident with others research.
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