An Investigation on a Source Code Sequence for Learning Programming by Typing

Abstract

　“Learning programming by typing” is a way of learning programming where a learner types the sample source code verbatim. The author has adopted this style in his courses of the C programming language so that the university students could acquire the knowledge of the syntax continually. In this paper, we attempted to verify whether learning contents are utilized in later classes. In the evaluation, 59 source files written in C were segmentalized into tokens such as “printf” and “++”, and set operations emerged the notable tokens.