Share Paper: "I hate programming" and Other Oscillating Emotions Experienced by Novice Students Learning Computer Programming
Tuesday, June 25 11:55 AM-12:15 PM Oak Bay 1
Abstract: Novice students’ experience strong emotions while learning to program. This is especially true when they are learning a threshold concept, as the action of crossing a threshold means walking through a “liminal space”. The liminal space is a transitional period where students experience oscillating emotions while trying to master a threshold concept. These emotions are rarely discussed in the field of computing and rarely mentioned in the literature associated with teaching-and-learning of computer programming. This paper describes such emotions and the paper reveals that there is no lack of emotional reactions while learning a threshold concept, program dynamics. As emotions ...