Learning experiences of Haaga-Helia’s BITe students regarding JavaScript and its libraries and frameworks in 2019
Rodríguez, Claudio (2020)
2020
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020110422197
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020110422197
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The advancements of technology and easy access to internet across the world has accelerated the changes and improvements of programming tremendously. Nowadays there are big communities of people contributing to the further development of programming languages. JavaScript has abruptly managed to make programming accessible and become one of the most popular programming languages nowadays.
Nonetheless the current fast pace at which technologies evolve has also increased the speed at which some programming languages and their environments must change and adapt. This brings new features and extra complexity to these technologies and therefore, developers and IT students must constantly continue learning the use new tools and methods, which can be quite demanding and possibly lead to stressful experiences.
The goal of this thesis was to investigate the learning experiences of Haaga-Helia’s Business Information Technology students regarding JavaScript, its libraries and frameworks and their feelings towards these technologies. Also, another objective was to find out which aspects of the teaching of JavaScript in Haaga-Helia has been most useful to their leaning path and which aspects of the teaching they feel that could be improved.
In order to gather data for this research an electronic survey was conducted were the students could give background information about their JavaScript related studies at Haaga-Helia and their feelings regarding the use of these technologies. Additionally, a couple of semi-structured interviews were carried out on soon to graduate students who had already some working experience as developers, which helped to find what had been most useful from their learning experience at Haaga-Helia and possible improvement suggestions.
Nonetheless the current fast pace at which technologies evolve has also increased the speed at which some programming languages and their environments must change and adapt. This brings new features and extra complexity to these technologies and therefore, developers and IT students must constantly continue learning the use new tools and methods, which can be quite demanding and possibly lead to stressful experiences.
The goal of this thesis was to investigate the learning experiences of Haaga-Helia’s Business Information Technology students regarding JavaScript, its libraries and frameworks and their feelings towards these technologies. Also, another objective was to find out which aspects of the teaching of JavaScript in Haaga-Helia has been most useful to their leaning path and which aspects of the teaching they feel that could be improved.
In order to gather data for this research an electronic survey was conducted were the students could give background information about their JavaScript related studies at Haaga-Helia and their feelings regarding the use of these technologies. Additionally, a couple of semi-structured interviews were carried out on soon to graduate students who had already some working experience as developers, which helped to find what had been most useful from their learning experience at Haaga-Helia and possible improvement suggestions.