Computer programming and novice programmers
Martinha Piteira, Carlos José de Castro Costa · 2012
Computer Programming is one of the skills very useful and can be a very rewarding career. However teaching and learning of computer programming is referred as one of the disciplines that face great challenges. Drop out, unmotivated and high levels retention of student's in the first year are problems that is imperative to solve. Strategies implemented by educators to overcome this problem have been used. Some of them are based on technology. Educators introduce in the learning process tools to support and facilitate the learning of computer programming.