Introductory Programming Subject in European Higher Education

• Published in: Informatics in education Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 163 - 182
• Main Authors: Aleksic, Veljko, Ivanovic, Mirjana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Vilnius Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla 01.01.2016; Vilnius University Press; Institute of Mathematics and Informatics; Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; Vilnius University
• Subjects: Algorithms; College Faculty; College Science; College Students; Colleges & universities; Communication studies; Computer programming; Computer Science; Computer Science Education; Critical Thinking; Education; Educational Practices; Educational Technology; Europe; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Information Science; Integrated Curriculum; Introductory Courses; Object oriented programming; Problem Solving; Program Design; Program Development; Programming; Programming Languages; Syntax; teaching; Teaching Methods; Teaching Models; Europe; higher education; teaching; programming
• ISSN: 1648-5831; 2335-8971
• DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2016.09

Programming is one of the basic subjects in most informatics, computer science mathematics and technical faculties' curricula. Integrated overview of the models for teaching programming, problems in teaching and suggested solutions were presented in this paper. Research covered current state of 1019 programming subjects in 715 study programmes at total of 218 faculties and 143 universities in 35 European countries that were analyzed. It was concluded that while most of the programmes highly support object-oriented paradigm of programming, introductory programming subjects are mainly based on imperative paradigm.