Study on Creativity Related to the Ability of University Programmers

Abstract

The ability to program is one of the capacities developed or, if applicable, computer engineering students, some studies in the literature start from the premise that this ability has a direct association with the creative capacity of students; From the above, the research reported was presented had the objective of identifying the relationship between the creativity of an engineering student in computing and his performance as a programmer, represented by the average obtained in certain subjects. The applied method was quantitative, transversal, of explanatory scope and for the recovery of data, the CREA test was used. The results indicate that creativity is not an incident to the ability to program and that other factors influence the development, such as the motivation encourage mainly by the teacher and the context surrounding the programmer.