Learning Data Structures—Same Difficulties in Different Countries?

• Beatriz Pérez-Sánchez ^[1] ; Paula Morais ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidade da Coruña

     Universidade da Coruña

     A Coruña, España

     
  2. [2] Universidade Portucalense

     Universidade Portucalense

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
• Localización: Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje: IEEE-RITA, ISSN 1932-8540, Vol. 11, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 242-247
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1109/rita.2016.2619140
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• Resumen

  • Data structures have been a core discipline in computer engineering studies. Several difficulties related to teaching and learning of these contents have been detected by the academic community. With the aim of obtaining a better knowledge of these situations, we present the conclusions obtained after evaluating the results achieved by the students of the subject Programming II, in the first course of the degree in computer engineering at the University of A Coruña (Spain) and the students of the subject data structures, where similar contents are taught in the Informatics Degree at Portucalense University (Portugal).

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