Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that influence the programming success of vocational college students and to investigate the effects of the students on programming achievement and demographic information (gender, type of school they graduated, past experience with programming, general academic grade point average), problem solving and analytical thinking skills, motivations of the students. Correlational method was utilized for this study. The dependent variables of the research is academic success in the programming course; independent variables are demographic information, motivation, self-sufficiency. demographic information survey, problem solving inventory and programming success test were used as data collection tools in the research. The research was carried out on the 2 nd grade students of 3 different vocational college computer programming programs. 195 students participated in the study. At the end of the study, there was a significant relationship between the students' programming achievement and gender, school type, general academic grade point average, motivation. 23% of total programming variance can be explained by demographic features, problem solving and analytical thinking skills, personal self-efficacy, motivation variables.

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