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Programming learning is becoming more and more popular among educational institutions, especially in secondary schools. Schools and researchers believe that computational skills are and will be one of essential skills for human beings in the future. Most of researches focus on pedagogical methods and resources of programming learning. However, there is still a gap about learners’ attitude toward it. In order to address this gap, we picked up 12 programming workshops in year 7 and 8 and analyzed the process of students’ changed ideas about programming throughout workshops. Two hundred thirty students from different countries were involved in these workshops.
In this paper, we discuss about students’ attitudes and opinions about programming learning before and after attending workshops. We used questionnaires as the way to collect data and analyze them to explore their attitude changes. We present the process of attitude changes to explore difficulties of programming learning and places need to be improved.
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Yang, J., Wong, G.K.W., Dawes, C. (2018). An Exploratory Study on Learning Attitude in Computer Programming for the Twenty-First Century. In: Deng, L., Ma, W., Fong, C. (eds) New Media for Educational Change. Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8896-4_5
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