Browsing Faculty of Education by Subject "Programming"

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Increasing self-efficacy in learning to program: exploring the benefits of explicit instruction for problem solving

Govender, Irene; Govender, Desmond W.; Havenga, Marietjie; Mentz, Elsa; Breed, Betty; Dignum, Frank; Dignum, Virginia (2014)

The difficulty of learning to program has long been identified amongst novices. This study explored the benefits of teaching a problem solving strategy by comparing students’ perceptions and attitudes towards problem ...
The role of metacognitive skills in solving object-oriented programming problems: a case study

Havenga, Marietjie (2015)

This article reports on the role of metacognitive skills when solving object-oriented programming problems as part of a case study. The research was constructivist-based within an interpretivist approach to explore how ...