The purpose of this study is to adapt “Computer Programming Self-Efficacy Scale”, developed by Ramalingam
and Wiedenbeck (1998), to Turkish and to examine individuals’ programming self-efficacy scores across
demographic variables. The study group is consisted of 152 undergraduate students from different academic
departments who have taken at least one programming course earlier. The original scale was a 7-likert type with
32 items in 4 factors (independence and persistence, ability to perform simple programming tasks, ability to
perform complex programming tasks, self-regulation). In the adapted version, the scale was finalized with 9
items in 2 factors (ability to perform simple programming tasks and ability to perform complex programming
tasks) in Turkish form. Cronbach alpha coefficient was found to be .928 and McDonald’s (omega), which is
proposed as being more appropriate for congeneric measurement, was found to be .956. As a result of
explanatory factor analysis, two factors have explained 80,814 % of the variance together and this factor
structure has been confirmed with confirmatory factor analysis, which showed a valid and reliable scale to
measure programming self efficacy