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Direct linkNikula, Uolevi; Sajaniemi, Jorma; Tedre, Matti; Wray, Stuart – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
Students often find that learning to program is hard. Introductory programming courses have high drop-out rates and students do not learn to program well. This paper presents experiences from three educational institutions where introductory programming courses were improved by adopting Python as the first programming language and roles of…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, Abstract Reasoning, Introductory Courses
