TY - GEN
T1 - Disciplinary variations in computer programming
AU - Situ, Fangling
AU - Song, You
AU - Ma, Xinxin
AU - Ma, Dongyuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/9/19
Y1 - 2018/9/19
N2 - Programming bugs are quite normal and usual for novice programmers. This article reports the findings of our research investigating disciplinary variations in the computer programming field from three perspectives, which are (i) the knowledge structure implied by the performance of each disciplinary group of students in the 26 question categories covering different knowledge points, (ii) the programming ability illustrated by the common bugs made by them respectively, and (iii) the knowledge acquisition ability suggested by the changes happened to the common bugs over a one-year period. The results support the hypothesis that the thinking pattern and the knowledge structure of students is shaped by their disciplinary context, and call into question the extent to which the knowledge acquisition process differs between different disciplinary groups. Overall, Students may use our result to look up the most common bugs in attempt to avoid them in the future. While instructors can use this result to continuously improve their curriculum and teaching practices for different disciplinary group of students respectively.
AB - Programming bugs are quite normal and usual for novice programmers. This article reports the findings of our research investigating disciplinary variations in the computer programming field from three perspectives, which are (i) the knowledge structure implied by the performance of each disciplinary group of students in the 26 question categories covering different knowledge points, (ii) the programming ability illustrated by the common bugs made by them respectively, and (iii) the knowledge acquisition ability suggested by the changes happened to the common bugs over a one-year period. The results support the hypothesis that the thinking pattern and the knowledge structure of students is shaped by their disciplinary context, and call into question the extent to which the knowledge acquisition process differs between different disciplinary groups. Overall, Students may use our result to look up the most common bugs in attempt to avoid them in the future. While instructors can use this result to continuously improve their curriculum and teaching practices for different disciplinary group of students respectively.
KW - Computer programming
KW - Disciplinary variation
KW - Programming bugs
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85055582310
U2 - 10.1109/ICCSE.2018.8468825
DO - 10.1109/ICCSE.2018.8468825
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85055582310
T3 - 13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018
SP - 187
EP - 191
BT - 13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2018
Y2 - 8 August 2018 through 11 August 2018
ER -