Programming Examples Analysis of Commercial Vocational High School Textbooks in Taiwan

This study aims to analyze the programming examples of commercial vocational high school textbooks in Taiwan. Five programming textbooks widely adopted by schools were reviewed to examine the presentation of programming examples´ problem-solving steps: problem analysis, solution planning, coding and testing/debugging. It is found that the examples lack abundant guidance of problem-solving steps for students, especially little attention was paid to problem analysis, solution planning and testing/debugging step. Most examples focus on the description of program codes rather than the detail steps of problem-solving.