Felienne Hermans on Programming Education

In this episode, Stefan Tilkov talks with Felienne Hermans, associate Professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands heading the Programming Education Research Lab. They talk about programming education with a focus on people learning their first programming skills and how the current approach in schools and university is flawed. Felienne explains the concept of deliberate practice and code vocalization and answers simple questions like "What's the best programming language for education?"

Stefan Tilkov talks with Felienne Hermans about Programming Education

Felienne's blog
Felienne's twitter
Tweet by Grady Booch
Survey on programming languages
Felienne's paper on reading code aloud
Felienne's paper on Effects of Gender, Self-Efficacy, Motivation and Stereotypes
Paper: The case for case studies of programming problems