Intuitive thinking while dealing with abstract data types
Waleed Khalifa · 2012
This paper describes a research conducted in computer science high-school classrooms while the students were learning Abstract Data Types ("Software Design"). The students were studying abstract data type's module after completing three modules based on the paradigm of procedural programming. The study researches the strategies used by the students and the conceptions they developed during their exposure to the paradigm. The main goal is to characterize high school students' practice with abstract data types.