Project Based Learning of Programming Subject: Case study on Data Structures

With the advisement of information technology, students are inclined to learn computer programming based subjects. This would help students to incorporate the advancements in the information technology to the applications of their field of engineering. But teaching computer science subjects to the students pursuing an non-IT degree is challenging task. Since the students are aiming to join industries with different domains, teaching the subjects according to their requirements or that suits their domain requirement will increase the interest of students and will motivate them to learn the subject. In laboratory we divided the experimental programs in different categories like demonstration, exercise, structured query, open ended and course project. The programming concepts were taught using visual effects that helped them to understand logic, data flow of program and find the faults during execution time. The effectiveness of learning programming language and developing programming skills was significantly improved with the investigated approach.