THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
Introduction
It is the new century, the new beginning and always bring new hope, a chance for new possibilities, a time for resolutions, and for checking optimistic disposition about new technology in the educational system.
In the 1997 Philippine Constitution (Article XIV, sec.10.), its states that, “Science and Technology is essential for national development, inventions, innovation and their utilization, and to science and technology education, training and services. It shall support indigenous, appropriate and self-relient, scientific and technological capabilities and their application to the country’s productive system and sectional life”.
It is true that an Information Technology plays a great role in our society and very important in business world, offices, schools, hospitals, and in the field of education. But how could these Information Technology Professionals apply their knowledge about this course to different fields of learning and application? If the presents students of course are experiencing hardships, trials and most of all, the difficulties they encountering in learning, analyzing and applying these ideas and high-tech procedures.
The technology plays a vital role in society. For these years, lots of students are taking Bachelor of Science in Information Technology course. Some are shifting and some are quitting because many students of University of Cagayan Valley taking Bachelor of Science in Information Technology degree do not perform well in Java Programming. This was proven through the results of both hands-on and written examinations, most particularly in their major programming subjects, specially, Java subject.
In today’s modern year, students are growing-up at a time of great scientific and technological development. Some of these are very interesting that a student wants to learn in computers, high-tech machines that manipulated by machines also. But because of insufficient