The Influence of Python Programming Education for Raising Computational Thinking

Abstract

To cultivate talented individuals who will lead societies in the future, where the convergence phenomenon of various disciplines will be emphasized, it is necessary to provide a liberal arts curriculum that can cultivate competencies acquired as a fusion talent in the liberalization process of universities. If most computer-related liberal arts courses are designed to teach and practice how to use software, students should be taught the skills to create software they need or to ask computer program developers. To do this, we need to find a way to effectively implement programming education, and to find an education model that can stimulate the students’ interests and improve computational thinking through interest in programming. According to a designed education model, students were asked to use a preand post-questionnaire consisting of 12 questions to understand the changes in computational thinking while conducting Python programming lessons for one semester. As a result, there were no differences between the groups, however the Python programming teacher was able to identify that the study had an impact on their computational thinking