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The purpose of the study is to compare the performance levels and attendance rates of online learners and traditional learners in the course of Pogramming Languages I. In addition, the effect of the students‟ GPA scores and attendance rates on the performance scores in Pogramming Languages I was investigated. The sample group of the study consists of 38 learners studying at the Department of Computers Education and Instructional Technologies and taking the course Programming Languages I. The experimental group was selected through the purposive sampling while the control group was selected by using the matching design. The learners in the experimental group took the courses only distantly during the 14-week period. The learners in the control group, on the other hand, took the courses through traditional methods.The learners who took courses through DLP and some virtual classroom applications had exactly the same number of hours as the traditional group did. Mid-term and final exams prepared by the experts of the field were evaluated as the learners‟ achievement scores. Besides, the demographic information, attendance rates and GPA scores of students were taken from the university‟s stundent information system. The results of the study demonstrated that learners in the experimental group were more successful than the learners in the control group and that they attended classes more often

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