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Is iteration really easier to learn than recursion for CS1 students?

Mirolo C
2012
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Abstract
There is general consensus that recursion is difficult to learn, which may be meant to imply that novice students are more at ease with iteration --- probably a widespread perception of students themselves. However, three years of investigation in a context where recursion is introduced earlier than iteration, as well as control experiments for a standard imperative-first introduction to programming, have provided no evidence that students make more progress with iteration than they do with recursion. More specifically, by means of a pair of questionnaires devised for this purpose, two research questions have been addressed. First, do the students who learned recursion before iteration actually exhibit a stronger ability to deal with the latter? Second, do the students of the imperative-first path master iteration better than those of the recursion-earlier path?
DOI
10.1145/2361276.2361296
SCOPUS
2-s2.0-84867370698
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/11390/866199
Diritti
closed access
Soggetti
  • programming learning

  • recursion

  • iteration

  • CS1

Scopus© citazioni
15
Data di acquisizione
Jun 2, 2022
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