Opinions of Teacher Candidates on Programming Education

The purpose of this study was to determine the opinions of teacher candidates on programming education. In this context, the opinions of the participants about the programming languages they had learned (C/C#, Arduino, Scratch), which methods they prefer to learn and the problems they had experienced in the process have been tried to be determined. The participants included in this study were composed of 25 sophomore teacher candidates who were studying at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies. 16 participants were female and nine were male. Descriptive method is used in study. The opinions of teacher candidates were collected via questionnaire. According to the results, teacher candidates have a positive view of all platforms. However, it has been determined that the opinions about C and Arduino platforms differ according to gender that female teacher candidates find these languages more difficult. Teacher candidates want to learn the programing in guidance of the instructor. When the problems faced by teacher candidates in learning programming are examined, it is seen that the problems are more in Arduino project group