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Understanding Students’ Failure to use Functions as a Tool for Abstraction – An Analysis of Questionnaire Responses and Lab Assignments in a CS1 Python Course
| العنوان: | Understanding Students’ Failure to use Functions as a Tool for Abstraction – An Analysis of Questionnaire Responses and Lab Assignments in a CS1 Python Course |
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| المؤلفون: | Pontus HAGLUND, Filip STRÖMBÄCK, Linda MANNILA |
| المصدر: | Informatics in Education, Vol 20, Iss 4, Pp 583-614 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Vilnius University, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Special aspects of education |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | abstraction, core concepts, procedural abstraction, data abstraction, CS1, python, Special aspects of education, LC8-6691 |
| الوصف: | Controlling complexity through the use of abstractions is a critical part of problem solving in programming. Thus, becoming proficient with procedural and data abstraction through the use of user-defined functions is important. Properly using functions for abstraction involves a number of other core concepts, such as parameter passing, scope and references, which are known to be difficult. Therefore, this paper aims to study students’ proficiency with these core concepts, and students’ ability to apply procedural and data abstraction to solve problems. We collected data from two years of an introductory Python course, both from a questionnaire and from two lab assignments. The data shows that students had difficulties with the core concepts, and a number of issues solving problems with abstraction. We also investigate the impact of using a visualization tool when teaching the core concepts. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1648-5831 2335-8971 |
| العلاقة: | https://doaj.org/toc/1648-5831Test; https://doaj.org/toc/2335-8971Test |
| DOI: | 10.15388/infedu.2021.26 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://doaj.org/article/93350abcd72f49339e6766d51b07628eTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.93350abcd72f49339e6766d51b07628e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 16485831 23358971 |
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| DOI: | 10.15388/infedu.2021.26 |