Enemchukwu, Ugwu Ibebuife; T. C. Ogbuanya, Ph D. (2020)

The study seeks to assess the need for an interactive tutor for self-learning of Java programming by computer education students in Nigeria. This study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised all the federal universities in South Eastern Nigeria with a population size of 214 Students of Computer Education from all the public Universities in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The findings revealed that all the Java programming skill listed out are well recognized and accepted by the students as important for a Computer Education Students in Nigeria and also the Computer Education students perform poorly in all the Java programming skills identified. From the findings also, there is a need for an Interactive Java programming tutor for Computer Education Students in Nigeria.