Re: [ppig-discuss] Students choose programming language?

2016-05-02 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
On 3/05/16 10:07 AM, Peter Sim wrote: Greetings I'm a secondary/high school teacher. I'm also enrolled in a masters paper on teaching programming. Is anyone aware of any literature concerning students being able to choose the language they use to learn programming? In our particular case

Re: [ppig-discuss] Students choose programming language?

2016-05-02 Thread Guzdial, Mark
Betsy DiSalvo did a nice paper comparing exactly these two languages: https://computinged.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/african-american-students-prefer-graphical-or-text-based-programming-languages-depending-on-career-goals/ - Mark From: ppig-discuss@googlegroups.c