Contemporary Alternative Approaches to Teach Introductory Programming

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Pages: 111-126

Abstract:

Construction of an introductory course in programming has always been difficult task, but new challenges have been added to the traditional ones, mostly related to the technology development, industry requirements and student motivation. So teachers and researchers are constantly looking for new pedagogical approaches to deal with this. Most of these approaches, however, solve only specific problems in a specific educational institution or program and are used only by their inventors. This article makes a critical analysis of seven selected contemporary alternative approaches to teaching introductory programming which have good chances to be imposed as a classical.

Keywords:

introductory programming, teaching approaches, pedagogy.

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