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Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) for Teaching Programming Languages

by Fawaz Alajmi, Ahmad Aa Alkhatib
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 121 - Number 20
Year of Publication: 2015
Authors: Fawaz Alajmi, Ahmad Aa Alkhatib
10.5120/21655-5026

Fawaz Alajmi, Ahmad Aa Alkhatib . Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) for Teaching Programming Languages. International Journal of Computer Applications. 121, 20 ( July 2015), 13-24. DOI=10.5120/21655-5026

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author = { Fawaz Alajmi, Ahmad Aa Alkhatib },
title = { Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) for Teaching Programming Languages },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { July 2015 },
volume = { 121 },
number = { 20 },
month = { July },
year = { 2015 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 13-24 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume121/number20/21655-5026/ },
doi = { 10.5120/21655-5026 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Ahmad Aa Alkhatib
%T Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) for Teaching Programming Languages
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Expectations from academics and the industry, to have students and employees who are independent and capable of quickly writing code to resolve work-related issues, are growing high. However, teaching and learning programming is certainly not easy and very challenging. Literature shows that a lot of work has been done to improve this. Nonetheless, it is evident that little effect of this work has had impact on the actual practice of teaching and learning of Software Development programming skills. This gap has been addressed in this paper to enhance the teaching and learning process of programming to students. Furthermore, teaching programming literature research has been classified into 3 categories; teaching approach, teaching model and teaching tool. As a result, this paper proposes the following objectives to tackle this problem: •Identify what research has found out about how to teach and learn programming and other aspects of Software Development •Investigate how and why this research has not been applied to teaching Software Development How more use could be made of it to improve teaching? Finally, an Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) has been proposed, which combines several teaching approaches and models from literature. In addition, this model uses teaching tools to provide goal-focused exercises, assess students' performance and obtain feedback from the learning community. Last but not least, a discussion about the future work required in order to assess the model and thus improve it.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Enhanced Teaching Model (ETM) Intelligent Teaching System (ITS) Teaching Approach Teaching Model Teaching Tool Software Development.

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