The purpose of this study was to determine IT teacher candidates’ attitudes, self-efficacy and opinions about educational robotic-based programming education. The participants of this study consisted of 2nd class students in Computer Education and Instructional Technologies department of a university in Turkey. The study group of the research consisted of undergraduate students who takes C programming course, and who also undertook traditional teaching as well as weekly Arduino applications that matched with weekly topics. Programming attitude and self-efficacy perception scales were used to specify students’ attitude towards the course and self-efficacy perception. In addition to quantitative data, to explain the entire process from students’ perspectives, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers was applied. The study findings showed that using micro-controllers such as Arduino for laboratory applications in programming education was of a positive effect on students’ attitudes, which was also supported by interview findings. Accordingly, almost all of the students described this application as engaging, interesting, exciting, and intriguing. The changes in students’ self-efficacy perception towards programming were also investigated and the findings demonstrated that there was no statistically significant difference, which was proven by the quantitative data obtained from the interviews. In this sense, although students perceived programming education with Arduino as positive, they were careful about this education model in terms of programming knowledge and skill development.

这项研究的目的是确定IT教师候选人对基于机器人的编程教育的态度，自我效能和观点。这项研究的参与者包括土耳其一所大学的计算机教育和教学技术系的二等班学生。该研究的研究组由参加C编程课程的本科生组成，他们还从事传统教学以及与每周主题匹配的每周Arduino应用程序。使用编程态度和自我效能感量表来指定学生对课程和自我效能感的态度。除定量数据外，为了从学生的角度解释整个过程，还使用了研究人员开发的半结构化访谈表。研究结果表明，在编程教育中使用诸如Arduino之类的微控制器在实验室中的应用对学生的态度有积极影响，访谈结果也证明了这一点。因此，几乎所有学生都将该应用程序描述为引人入胜，有趣，令人兴奋且耐人寻味。还调查了学生对编程自我效能感的变化，研究结果表明，在统计学上没有显着差异，这可以从访谈中获得的定量数据得到证明。从这个意义上讲，尽管学生认为使用Arduino进行编程教育是积极的，但他们在编程知识和技能开发方面对这种教育模型还是很谨慎的。