Abstract

This study aimed to identify the effects of three kinds of language competence on three kinds of programming interests. This study’s participants consisted of 39 college students who had begun to learn C programming. It classified language competence into “reading”, “writing”, and “grammatical understanding”, and programming interests into “situational interest”, “latent interest”, and “actualized interest”, and analyzed the effects of each variable of those three groups. This study used Pandas for analysis, and performed reliability testing, descriptive statistics analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Pearson’s correlation coefficients between the three items on language competence and the three items on programming interests were as follows: .54 ~ .88 in the first survey; .54 ~.95 in the second survey; and .66~.94 in the third survey. All the p values were

Key words: Language competence, novice programmer, programming competence, Psychology of Programming.