Correlation Analysis of Developer Interaction on Stack Overflow Website towards Perceived Programming Skills among Information Technology Students in Jose Maria College

There is massive information and addresses that can be found through the internet. Internet users visit websites like forums and blogs worldwide to seek information, communicate especially to get ideas. Stack Overflow is one of the popular sites ever visited by communities. The main objective of this site is to enable users to ask questions, collaborate and seek help commonly to a certain programming context or errors. Furthermore, programmers find it an effective and interesting collaborating site. Considering this site has been for many years on the internet. May it be a beginner trying to figure out programming, average or professionals with different logics and ways of contributions find this site very influential. This alone has shaped individuals’ programming skills both negatively and positively. This study aims to produce a statistical record of correlation between developer interactions of Stack Overflow within Jose Maria College IT students and perceived programming skills. Jose Maria College is an institution that runs an IT program which means programming as one of their core subjects, students are no excuse and exposed to encountering programming issues. Often, the students are susceptible to visiting Stack Overflow to find answers for their assignments and projects. Nevertheless, this study will show the impact of the site on the programming skills of the students. Commonly visualization figures and text inputs indicating the instruments and findings.