Our recent Scientific Reports paper, Relating Natural Language Aptitude to Individual Differences in Learning Programming Languages, was featured recently in a UW News article, Not a ‘math person’? You may be better at learning to code than you think. From the article:
“Many barriers to programming, from prerequisite courses to stereotypes of what a good programmer looks like, are centered around the idea that programming relies heavily on math abilities, and that idea is not born out in our data,” said lead author Chantel Prat, an associate professor of psychology at the UW and at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. “Learning to program is hard, but is increasingly important for obtaining skilled positions in the workforce. Information about what it takes to be good at programming is critically missing in a field that has been notoriously slow in closing the gender gap.”
