Computer
Programming Languages (CPL) is known for its complexity and difficulty. It is
believed to be hard to teach and to learn also many pupils and students in CPL
courses have difficulties to master all
required competencies and skills. At the introductory
level of CPL, that problem is even more
notable. There are different approaches to improve the dropout rate at CPL
courses and to populate CPL. Recently, special visual environments for Visual
Programming Language (VPL) are being used.
Early research results show that VPL can be more efficient than classical
textual programming, students can be more motivated, less bored and not burden
with the syntax of CPL in hand, also Iraq
as a new developing county especially in education and technology not study CPL in primary and high schools. In
this study, we use visual basic for learning CPLs
at 6th grade to 9th-grade primary schools
in Iraq. We teach visual basic in four primary schools in Sulaimani city during
a course and we test the students, the
result of the test shows that the students have
the ability to learn CPL by rating 71%, also the students enjoyed with
learning CPL. Finally, the result of this paper helps us to adding CPL curriculum to primary schools as
well as to high schools.
Computer
Programming Languages (CPL) is known for its complexity and difficulty. It is
believed to be hard to teach and to learn also many pupils and students in CPL
courses have difficulties to master all
required competencies and skills. At the introductory
level of CPL, that problem is even more
notable. There are different approaches to improve the dropout rate at CPL
courses and to populate CPL. Recently, special visual environments for Visual
Programming Language (VPL) are being used.
Early research results show that VPL can be more efficient than classical
textual programming, students can be more motivated, less bored and not burden
with the syntax of CPL in hand, also Iraq
as a new developing county especially in education and technology not study CPL in primary and high schools. In
this study, we use visual basic for learning CPLs
at 6th grade to 9th-grade primary schools
in Iraq. We teach visual basic in four primary schools in Sulaimani city during
a course and we test the students, the
result of the test shows that the students have
the ability to learn CPL by rating 71%, also the students enjoyed with
learning CPL. Finally, the result of this paper helps us to adding CPL curriculum to primary schools as
well as to high schools.
Primary Language | English |
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Subjects | Studies on Education |
Journal Section | Research Article |
Authors | |
Publication Date | August 17, 2019 |
Submission Date | February 25, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |
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