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Challenges Faced by Teenage Programmers in Software Development

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Challenges Faced by Teenage Programmers in Software Development
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/97PY1K
 
Creator Sadhu, Harshith
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description As software has become an integral part of society, many teenage programmers have taken their hand at creating software applications, such as websites or video games. However, since programming is not such an easy concept to master, many developers have been left struggling in their coding journeys
As indicated in the current body of literature, many professionals have struggled with marketing, creating applications for multiple platforms, and garnering enough project sponsorship. Although these studies were great in that they described the common issues, they did not cover the teenage population, hence leading me to investigate the most common obstacles of software development amongst the teenage population and how they can resolve these challenges.
To investigate this topic, a 2 part study was conducted which surveyed teenagers on their most challenging programming obstacles and which interviewed industry level professionals for solutions/advice for these challenges.
It was then revealed that teenagers faced some of the same issues as industry level professionals, such as cross platform integration and brainstorming unique application purposes, however, they were unique in that they had issues managing their school work with their development time.
With the completion of this study, the obstacles of the teenage population were finally uncovered and teenage programmers are now able to refer back to the advice given within the study to further their software journeys.
 
Subject Computer and Information Science
Computer Science
 
Contributor Sadhu, Harshith