Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Andrew Luxton-Reilly; null Simon; Ibrahim Albluwi; Brett A. Becker; Michail Giannakos; Amruth N. Kumar; Linda Ott; James Paterson; Michael Scott; Judy  Sheard; Claudia Szabo

doi:10.1145/3293881.3295779

Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Simon, Ibrahim Albluwi, Brett A. Becker, Michail Giannakos, Amruth N. Kumar, Linda Ott, James Paterson, Michael Scott, Judy Sheard, Claudia Szabo

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Abstract

As computing becomes a mainstream discipline embedded in the school curriculum and acts as an enabler for an increasing range of academic disciplines in higher education, the literature on introductory programming is growing. Although there have been several reviews that focus on specific aspects of introductory programming, there has been no broad overview of the literature exploring recent trends across the breadth of introductory programming. This paper is the report of an ITiCSE working group that conducted a systematic review in order to gain an overview of the introductory programming literature. Partitioning the literature into papers addressing the student, teaching, the curriculum, and assessment, we explore trends, highlight advances in knowledge over the past 15 years, and indicate possible directions for future research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITiCSE 2018 Companion: Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	55-106
Number of pages	52
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-6223-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3293881.3295779
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2018
Event	23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - University of Central Lancashire, Larnaca, Cyprus Duration: 2 Jul 2018 → 4 Jul 2018 https://iticse.acm.org/ITiCSE2018/ (Link to conference website)

Conference

Conference	23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Abbreviated title	ITiCSE '18
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Larnaca
Period	2/07/18 → 4/07/18
Internet address	https://iticse.acm.org/ITiCSE2018/ (Link to conference website)

Keywords

ITiCSE working group
CS1
introductory programming
novice programming
systematic literature review

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Luxton-Reilly, A., Simon, Albluwi, I., Becker, B. A., Giannakos, M., Kumar, A. N., Ott, L., Paterson, J., Scott, M., Sheard, J., & Szabo, C. (2018). Introductory programming: a systematic literature review. In ITiCSE 2018 Companion: Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 55-106). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3293881.3295779

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Introductory programming: a systematic literature review. / Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Simon; Albluwi, Ibrahim et al.

ITiCSE 2018 Companion: Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 55-106.

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