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Determining The Barriers Faced By Novice Programmers
Pranay Kumar Sevella, Young Lee, Jeong Yang
Pages - 10 - 22     |    Revised - 15-08-2013     |    Published - 15-09-2013
Volume - 4   Issue - 1    |    Publication Date - September 2013  Table of Contents
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Novice Programmer, Programming Barrier, Programming Education
ABSTRACT
Most of the novice programmers find glitches at various phases while trying to complete a program in their Computer Science programming course. These phases can be while constructing the code, finding errors in the code at the time of compilation of the program, debugging these errors while executing the program. Novice programmers are unable to understand some of the concepts in programming. Computer Science programming course instructors are experiencing difficulty in finding these barriers faced by the students. These barriers are forcing students to drop programming course from their degree plan and becoming a concern to the professors teaching programming course. In this research ActivePresenter software is used. This software recorded the full motion video with crystal clear quality and helped in capturing screen shots automatically with a click of a mouse or pressing any key in the keyboard of the students who are trying to complete a programming assignment. By analyzing all the recordings collected from different students, these barriers are determined.
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Mr. Pranay Kumar Sevella
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Texas A&M University – Kingsville Kingsville, 78363 - United States of America
Dr. Young Lee
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Texas A&M University – Kingsville Kingsville, 78363 - United States of America
young.lee@tamuk.edu
Dr. Jeong Yang
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Texas A&M University–Kingsville - United States of America


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