Evaluación de una metodología novel basada en cuadernos interactivos para el aprendizaje de la programación en Python

Abstract

Teaching programming to undergrad students without previous experience in computational thinking poses a challenge that calls for novel didactic methods orien- ted explicitly towards this kind of audience. In our contribution, we describe the experience of adapting and evaluating a novel methodology and its associa- ted ecosystem of tools in a classroom of 43 first-year students (N=43) of statistics. Following recommenda- tions found in the literature, the experimental metho- dology implements pair-programming and TDD (Test- Driven Development) techniques intending to impro- ve both the teaching and learning experiences. From the evaluation, we could learn that this had a positive impact on the students’ performance and their gene- ral satisfaction with the course. Finally, the educatio- nal materials of this research were collected and put online under a Creative Commons license so that other scientific peers can replicate our work in other future didactic experiences.