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Programmers’ affinity to languages

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Summary: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.
Main Authors:Costa Neto, Alvaro
Other Authors:Araújo, Cristiana; Pereira, Maria João; Henriques, Pedro Rangel
Subject:Computer programming Programming languages Affinity Education Learning
Year:2021
Country:Portugal
Document type:conference paper
Access type:open access
Associated institution:Universidade Politécnica de Bragança
Language:English
Origin:Biblioteca Digital da UPB

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