E-resource for learning programming in Python

For a better understanding of all computer programs, with which nowadays we are surrounded, the demand for knowing programming languages has nowadays been growing. As more and more people have been interested in learning programming languages, even the basic knowledge of only one programming language is very helpful. As there are nowadays already many programming languages, we decided for the programming language Python. It is anticipated as a programming language which is easy to read and has a simple syntax. For this reason we agreed it is suitable to be chosen as the first language for teaching programming. In this thesis we studied the programming language Python’s basics and prepared two didactic e-resources for teaching it. The main difference is in the quantity of examples: one consists of more, while the second of less examples. As we were interested in how students are learning, which sources they use for learning, and whether they could be able to learn programming languages independently from the e-resource, we prepared a questionnaire, before e-resource would be used. We also prepared a test and a short questionnaire to be filled in after using the material. The research results showed that in teaching programming the quantity of examples has an important role, and that students want to learn from even more examples, in other words, examples are never too many. We also came to a conclusion that one can learn a programming language without a teacher’s help by using e-resource, in case it is well prepared. We also concluded that students of Mathematics and Computer Science at Faculty of Education University of Ljubljana are the best in the programming languages, which they learn during their study, while they learn all the other programming languages by themselves especially using e-resources