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@Article{Leither:1978:WJC,
  author =       "Henry E. Leither and Harry R. Lewis",
  title =        "Why johny can't program: a progress report",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "10",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "266--276",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1978",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/990654.990640",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 07:38:04 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Papers of the SIGCSE\slash CSA Technical Symposium on
                 Computer Science Education.",
  abstract =     "We are engaged in teaching technical material,
                 specifically computer science, to a large number of
                 undergraduates (400--500), the majority of whom are
                 non-science majors. Many of these students have trouble
                 learning the course material. We are not here talking
                 about those few students who are affected by such
                 problems as physical handicaps or other specific
                 learning disabilities; non are we concerned with those
                 individuals who exhibit poor study habits or strong
                 preferences for unusual ``favored modes of perception''
                 [WEIN]. We are concerned with the significant number of
                 students who, for no apparent reason, have a great deal
                 of difficuly learning elementary computer concepts. Why
                 do some never understand? Why do others, who eventually
                 succeed, take a great deal longer than the majority of
                 our students?This paper is a report on research in
                 progress. Our research at this time is mainly concerned
                 with:(a) Determining, in advance, which students are
                 likely to encounter the severest problems learning
                 computer science;(b) Finding out what there is
                 specifically in the nature of the course material which
                 causes the greatest difficulty for these students; and
                 (c) Developing a methodology for helping students to
                 overcome such learning problems. This paper is
                 organized into 6 major sections. Section I is an
                 introduction to the Natural Sciences 110 course, to the
                 programming language used in this course, and to the
                 major teaching problems we face. Section II is a
                 statement of our goals in this research effort. Section
                 III describes the method by which we are attempting to
                 realize our intended goals. Section IV describes the
                 special recitation sections which are being used to
                 help us monitor the potentially ``slower'' students.
                 Section V deals with classifying the specific
                 conceptual barriers which we have thus far found to
                 inhibit normal learning in many computer science
                 students. Section VI is 2 statement of the direction
                 which our research will follow in the immediate
                 future.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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