Does anyone have a good suggestion for an overview of the psychology
of programming?
Hi All
Apologies for shameless self-promotion. The following review is well
cited:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a714015900
Robins, A., Rountree, J. & Rountree, N. Learning and teaching
programming: A review and discussion. Computer Science Education,
13(2), 137 - 172 (2003)
This recent paper also reviews a lot of literature relating to the
psychology of programming, and proposes a learning based mechanism to
account for the bimodal distribution of results seen in many
introductory programming papers:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a920990473
Robins A. Learning edge momentum: A new account of outcomes in CS1.
Computer Science Education, 20: 37 - 71 (2010)
Pre publication pdfs on my page:
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/anthony/publications.html#csed
Cheers
Anthony
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