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Programmers' Affinity to Languages Costa Neto, Alvaro Araújo, Cristiana Pereira, Maria João Varanda Henriques, Pedro Rangel Computer programming Programming Languages Affinity Education Learning Students face several challenges when learning computer programming languages, a central topic to acquire programming skills. While those challenges that present a predominantly technical nature have been intensely studied by researchers along the years, the ones that are concerned with qualitative, and personal aspects have not. Affinity to a programming language is one of the many personal factors that may contribute to surpass these qualitative aspects that describe the difficulties that students face. From this point-of-view, this paper presents a proposal for treating and studying programmers' affinity to programming languages as an important factor for learning computer programming. It also reports a preliminary questionnaire conducted on a master’s degree class at Universidade do Minho that showed that affinity may have a broader relation to learning computer programming than anticipated. Finally, a set of relevant questions are stated to compose a future inquiry aimed at deepening the knowledge on the affinity between programmers and languages, paving the way for following research. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Alvaro Costa Neto and Cristiana Araújo and Maria João Varanda Pereira and Pedro Rangel Henriques 2021 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 91, Second International Computer Programming Education Conference (ICPEC 2021) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.3 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142192 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ICPEC.2021.3 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode