First year undergraduate electronic engineering students from a Peruvian university learn to program with Python

Abstract

The programming language Python, due to its syntax, is nowadays considered to be the best choice to introduce students to programming. Therefore, during the first semester of the year 2018, an introductory course to programming with Python was given at the University of Sciences and Humanities in Lima, Peru. The course was targeted to first year undergraduate students from the professional school of electronic engineering of the aforementioned institution. In the following paper, the design and methods followed and used, respectively, throughout the course are discussed. Furthermore, the outlook of the students as well as the lessons gained by the professor on how to further improve this course for the coming semesters are reported.