A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Wild Wild West of Scientific Computing with Student Learners
A Randomized Controlled Trial on the Wild Wild West of Scientific Computing with Student Learners
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与学生学习者一起进行的科学计算狂野西部的随机对照试验
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10.1145/3291279.3339421
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2019
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通讯作者:
Stefik, Andreas
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作者:
Rafalski, Timothy;Uesbeck, P. Merlin;Panks-Meloney, Cristina;Daleiden, Patrick;Allee, William;Mcnamara, Amelia;Stefik, Andreas
Scientific computing has become an area of growing importance. Across fields such as biology, education, physics, or others, people are increasingly using scientific computing to model and understand the world around them. Despite the clear need, almost no systematic analysis has been conducted on how students in fields outside of computer science learn to program in the context of scientific computing. Given that many fields do not explicitly teach much programming to their students, they may have to learn this important skill on their own. To help, using rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods, we looked at the process 154 students followed in the context of a randomized controlled trial on alternative styles of programming that can be used in R. Our results suggest that the barriers students face in scientific computing are non-trivial and this work has two core implications: 1) students learning scientific computing on their own struggle significantly in many different ways, even if they have had prior programming training, and 2) the design of the current generation of scientific computing feels like the wild-wild west and the designs can be improved in ways we will enumerate.
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