Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Garrett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Thomas Walker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

opportunity asurvey was developed and implemented at the end of the spring 2007 semester. The surveyasked the students to answer a common set of questions, eight questions for each of the sixlanguages. Those questions included perceptions of relevance and perceptions of effects on self-confidence (also known as “self-efficacy”). The survey also asked the students whether, or not,they would recommend each programming language for use with future students. Although thesurveys were anonymous, standard demographic data was requested, and that has allowed simplecomparisons to be made not only between programming languages but also to compare theattitudes of women and minorities to those of white males (for this study, the responses ofwomen and minorities