{"id":20560,"date":"2020-03-14T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2020-03-14T07:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:44:45","slug":"ccatp-629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/ccatp-629\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #629 – Dr. Garry on Study of Language Skills vs Numeracy In Learning to Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

CCATP #629 for March 13, 2020, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is returning guest Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato<\/a>. I asked Maryanne to come on the show this week to help me break down a research paper I read that’s not actually in her area of expertise. Nonetheless, she does help me understand the testing methods used and how useful the conclusions of the paper might be.<\/p>\n

The paper we talked about came to my attention via the Daily Tech News Show<\/a>. The paper is available as open access, and is entitled “Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages” on Nature.com<\/a>. It is about a study done out of the University of Washington which hypothesized that learning to program did not depend on math skills, but rather was more correlated with language-learning skills. If found to be true, this questions why we usually have higher-level math requirements in universities for programming courses.<\/p>\n

The researchers used a course on Codecademy on learning Python, and you can take the same course for free at www.codecademy.com\/…<\/a>.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2020_03_13.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Here are the figures from the open access paper that we talk about in this episode:<\/p>\n

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