Assessing the Understanding Level of Students for the Computer Programming Course through MATLAB: A Case Study of Working Professional Student

Abstract

As new digital technologies evolve in various engineering facets, there is a need for an engineer, as a stakeholder to understand and comprehend the backbone of the technologies and the logical framework involved. Programming plays an important role to understand it easily, therefore, the article emphasises the impact of teaching programming to the engineers and its effectiveness with respect to the learning outcomes. The case study involves working professionals who are students at the largest technical institute which offers work-integrated learning programs in India. The research is carried out for the recently concluded course Computer Programming in their current semester which was taught through MATLAB. It has been observed through a feedback survey that the level of understanding of the logic and the software was increased significantly at the end of the semester.