Self learning trends in the field of introductory programming

Abstract

The changing nature of trends and technologies in computer science field is one of the things that make this field even more challenging. New developments may appear and attract learners, while older topics may have slighter importance from learners. Studying how trends evolve in Computer Science can be interesting from many perspectives. Furthermore, it can be used to craft learning paths. There are many ongoing studies that investigate the trends based on the research papers and publications in the field. In this paper, the trends are explored from the learners' perspective. Furthermore, since most of the learners today gain a good part of their skills and knowledge form the self learning online tutorials, in this paper the trends are analyzed based on the self learning tutorials and their statistics.