Uma proposta de metodologia de ensino de programação e raciocínio lógico computacional para a comunidade não acadêmica de computação

Abstract

Teaching programming is one of the main problems related to computer science students drop out because not everyone can follow and understand programming at first view. It is unanimous the great difficulty in understanding programming for newcomers to the area. Also, this is one of the subjects that most disapprove students in IT undergraduate courses. Thinking about this problem, which is the programming education, new ways of spreading knowledge and learning content are necessary, thus a new methodological proposal is presented. This methodological proposal is based on incremental levels, wherein the higher level is increased by a knowledge of the previous level, facilitating and providing a basis for further programming in its understanding. The proposed methodology was applied in a middle school, through practical activities, surveys and interviews. At the end we made a list of the main problems and suggestions for improvement. The results showed that the proposed methodology could make students associate and reuse knowledge from a previous level to the subsequent level.