TEACHING JAVA: A RESEARCH TREND
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https://doi.org/10.35631/IJEPC.1165001Keywords:
Java, Object-Oriented Programming, TeachingAbstract
The rise of the significance of programming education has sparked academic interest in the best methods of teaching Java, especially since Java is now used extensively in object-oriented programming education and in the acquisition of fundamental computational skills. Nonetheless, the intellectual growth, research tendencies, geographical dispersion, thematic organization, and patterns of collaboration in the teaching Java literature are not synthesized adequately. This paper thus seeks to offer a thorough bibliometric review of academic literature on the teaching of Java and to determine its evolution, publications that have contributed most, the most contributing countries, the prevailing research topics and patterns of international collaboration. The bibliometric analysis was performed based on 239 academic articles found in the Scopus database with the help of an advanced search strategy that included three main concepts: Java, object-oriented programming, and teaching. The retrieved records were then analyzed and refined with the help of OpenRefine, and Scopus Analyzer and VOSviewer were used to analyze the trends in publications, citation performance, country contributions, co-occurrence of keywords, and international co-authorship networks. The results indicate how the interest in teaching Java research has evolved, the most impactful articles and the most contributing countries, and the key thematic groups and future research directions in the area. The keyword and collaboration analyses also emphasize the intellectual and geographical frameworks on which research on Java education is based. On the whole, the current research offers a systematic review of the current research environment in the field of teaching Java and a rich source of knowledge to teachers, researchers, and institutions interested in determining the current research directions, the emergent themes, and the opportunities to engage in international research in the future.
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