Algorithm-Aided Design with Python: Analysis of Technological Competence of Subjects

• Published in: Education sciences Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 200 - 211
• Main Authors: Pontes, Thiago Bessa, Miranda, Guilhermina Lobato, Celani, Gabriela Caffarena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Achievement Need; algorithm-aided design; Architecture; Cognition & reasoning; College Students; Computer programming; Computer Science Education; Computer Use; Computers; Curricula; Education; Foreign Countries; Instructional Design; Knowledge; Knowledge Level; Learning; Learning Processes; Multimedia; Pedagogy; Personal computers; Programming; python; Skill Development; Software; Student Attitudes; Student Motivation; Students; Teaching; Teaching Methods; technological competences; Technological Literacy; Brazil; New York; United States > US; Portugal

Difficulties in learning computer programming for novices is a subject of abundant scientific literature. These difficulties seem to be accentuated in students whose academic choice is not computation, like architecture students. However, they need to study programming, since it is part of the new a...