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| Resumo: | Students face several challenges when learning computer programming languages, a central topic to acquire programming skills. While those challenges that present a predominantly technical nature have been intensely studied by researchers along the years, the ones that are concerned with qualitative, and personal aspects have not. Affinity to a programming language is one of the many personal factors that may contribute to surpass these qualitative aspects that describe the difficulties that students face. From this point-of-view, this paper presents a proposal for treating and studying programmers’ affinity to programming languages as an important factor for learning computer programming. It also reports a preliminary questionnaire conducted on a master’s degree class at Universidade do Minho that showed that affinity may have a broader relation to learning computer programming than anticipated. Finally, a set of relevant questions are stated to compose a future inquiry aimed at deepening the knowledge on the affinity between programmers and languages, paving the way for following research. |
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| Autores principais: | Costa Neto, Alvaro |
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| Outros Autores: | Araújo, Cristiana; Pereira, Maria João; Henriques, Pedro Rangel |
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| Assunto: | Computer programming Programming languages Affinity Education Learning |
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| Ano: | 2021 |
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| País: | Portugal |
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| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
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| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
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| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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| Origem: | Biblioteca Digital do IPB |
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