What Does It Take to Learn ’Programming Thinking’?

摘要

What is ’programming thinking’? In a study, first yearrnstudents were interviewed on their understanding of whatrnlearning to program means. Many students talked aboutrnlearning to program in terms of learning a special way tornthink, different from other subjects studied. Many of thesernstudents had problems in describing what this special wayrnto think included. The analysis of the interviews revealedrnsome features of this thinking, as expressed by the students.rnIn this paper we discuss and analyse ’programming thinking’rnusing phenomenography as our research approach [7]. Ourrnresults are coherent with Hazzan’s research on the learningrntheory ’process-object duality’ [4], but points to problemsrnin learning of object-oriented programming not indicated inrn’process-object duality’. In comparing the results form ourrnown study with this learning theory, we discuss what thisrnmight mean in learning object-oriented programming.