FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENT’S PERCEPTION IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING USING AUCHI POLYTECHNIC AS CASE STUDY

ABSTRACT

Computer programming is required by most students majoring in computer science. The art of programming includes knowledge of programming tools and languages, problem solving skills, and effective strategies for program design and implementation. This study examines the factors influencing student’s perception in computer programming using Auchi Polytechnic, as case study. Specific objectives of the study are to examine the psychological, social, physiological, method of instruction and environmental factors that influence students’ perception in computer programming and determine the relationships that exist between the factors. C++ was used the practical with student. The population consists of 524 HND 2 students of Computer Science Department and sample size of the study was 227. The study used descriptive and experimental research design with the aid of SPSS version 22 for data analysis. The findings revealed that psychological factors, environmental factors, physiological factors and methodology of instructions have significant influence on students perception in computer programming while Social factors have no significant influence on students perception in computer programming. Conclusively, psychological factors, physiological factors, environmental factors and Method of instructions significantly influence students perception in computer programming and social factors has no significant influence on students’ perception in computer programming. Finally, experiment class revealed that majority of the class like computer programming as it enable them to proffers solution to problems, teach them problem solving skills, good skill for programming, and that the experiment class was helpful and helped to change their view about learning computer programming from being difficult to easy understanding and not complex. The study recommended that students should be taught problem solving, creative and logical reasoning skills required to write computer programs. This will help them to be more confident in learning computer programming courses.