Teaching Engineering to First year Students (Essay Sample)

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Title: Teaching Programming to First Year Students
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Teaching programming to first years can be a complicated task due to several factors such as, psychological and pedagogical. Tutors should ensure that there is more focused and directed discussions with first year students (Esendal, & Dean, 2009). According to Hosack, Lim, & Vogt (2012), introduction of web services and service-Oriented Architecture to beginners is beneficial rather than the typical ISI teaching approach. This approach introduces first year students to interesting tools and effective technology applied in the IT sector. There are several web-based interactive tools that allow beginners to conduct evaluation after code generation is complete. For instance, Doctor Code software enables "health-checking" of the generated codes (Esendal, & Dean, 2009). Students receive feedback on demand concerning the code quality until they are satisfied. The application also provides ideas on how to improve their projects. This tool helps first year university students to learn how to program effectively. The application is user friendly and requests for user identification and files to be evaluated (Esendal, & Dean, 2009).
Web services enable simultaneous operation of different software programs running on diverse platforms. The Web service ability to access familiar real word content like Google map and Twitter feed and integrate this infor...