On 22 Apr 2015, at 08:02, Martin Bähr <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Excerpts from Gorman, Gerard J's message of 2015-04-22 08:11:11 +0200: If you are taking on the fight to change the curriculum I have two pieces of advice. First pile up your evidence: lots of literature on what are good and bad first programming languages where can i find that? any references? Greg keeps recommending http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Jossey-Bass/dp/0470484101 He’s right. It’s a worthwhile read. I have pretty much made every mistake/problem discussed in the book and wished I read it a long time ago. i am developer and not a scientist, and my communities this question keeps being discussed and answered only with gut feelings without any evidence. the only evidence i have seen so far was some research mentioned here on the list last year... would love to see more quotable materials that i can use to support my recommendations. The trick is to realise that there is a science to teaching&learning as well as everything else; and someone out there will be writing papers on it ;-) So google scholar is a good place to start: e.g. https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=a+survey+of+literature+on+teaching+of+introductory+programming Cheers Gerard
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