Emphasizing Group Work in Code Camp Process

Abstract

Code camp is a teaching method in which people learning programming study together intensively for a short period of time. Code camps are designed to promote collaborative learning of necessary programming skills. In this paper, the code camp process is studied; especially the part of the process that is built on the characteristics of group dynamics. The code camp process is evaluated through one of the code camps realized at Lappeenranta University of Technology in 2008. The evaluation reveals that a code camp setting is a promising teaching method which supports collaborative learning.