THOSE WHO FAIL THE INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER PROGRAMMING COURSE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Per Lauvås, Kristine Sundt Lorentzen · 2016
Right now, thousands of students in higher education worldwide are experiencing computer programming for the first time through an introductory programming course. After the final exam, approximately one third of these students will realize that they failed to pass the course. At the university college Westerdals Oslo ACT in Norway, we welcome 200 of these programming prospects each year. And each year, too many of them fail to pass the course. This article gives a brief overview of some of the existing research describing the phenomena before we provide our own contribution. We try to investigate the problem by interviewing students that recently participated in the course and failed. What are their stories, and what can we learn from them?