You Should Read Juha Sorva's Thesis

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

If you really want to dig deeper into educational research and how it applies to teaching programming, you should grab a copy of Juha Sorva's PhD thesis. The UUhistle system he built is interesting, and the research he did with it is thought-provoking, but what's really great is the summary of educational research in the first third of the thesis. I've extracted that part with his permission, and I can't recommend it highly enough.