Analysis of research into the teaching and learning of programming

This paper presents an analysis of research papers about programming education that were published in computing education conferences in the years 2005 to 2008. We employed Simon's classification scheme to identify the papers of interest from the ICER, SIGCSE, ITiCSE, ACE, Koli Calling and NACCQ conferences. Having identified the papers, we analysed the type of data collected, whether the analysis was qualitative, quantitative, or mixed, and the aims and outcomes being reported.