Application of Cooperative Learning Techniques in Teaching a Programming Language

This article describes the methodology followed in Computer Sciences and Microprocessor courses during the last academic year. All the performed activities was based on cooperative task that students developed in groups. That groups were made up by the professor after a diagnostic test. Through implementation of this methodology, the students showed a high degree of satisfaction and consequently, the results of the evaluations has been very successful. The number of passing students were rather better than the previous academic years. Furthermore, the desertion ratio decreased quite a lot.