A preliminary study on teaching programming at Malaysian school

• Main Authors: Suliman, Azizah, Hawari, Rozita, Othman, Marini
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: LB Theory and practice of education; QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/13649/1/220.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/13649/; http://www.icoci.cms.net.my

This paper presents a study on teaching and learning programming in a Malaysian school.The study attempts to identify all possible relations of student’s background and attitudes towards learning programming.The motivations for this study comes from the fact that introductory programming in Higher Learning Institutes face a high rate of under achievers.Since the feeder to these institutions are schools, it is felt that if the teaching and learning of programming in schools are strengthen the above mentioned problem can too be greatly reduced. This study attempts to find all possible relations that would help in proposing a more effective method of teaching and learning programming in school and at Higher Learning Institution.