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Figure 4. Student ranking of course Web site
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Helpfulness
The mean difference in perceived difficulty for students in the Java course with prior
programming experience versus those without is significant at the 0.05 level. Figure 6 shows
this relationship, where
little
experience refers to those who rated their experience as a one
or a two,
somewhat
refers to those in the three to five range, and
very
includes those with
a rating of six or seven.
The average number of hours worked per week was 8.24 ± 4.62, while the average for
the VB course had been 6.59 ± 4.35. The mean difference between the two is significant at the
0.05 level. There was also a significant difference between means for those students with prior
Figure 5. Comparison of VB course difficulty to Java course difficulty
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Degree of Difficulty
