Mini-languages: A way to learn programming principles

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-83

  Brusilovsky, Peter ^a   Calabrese, Eduardo ^b   Hvorecky, Jozef ^c   Kouchnirenko, Anatoly ^d   Miller, Philip ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS IN BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher education; Informatics; Languages; Logo; Programming; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002102912     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018636507883     Document Type: Article

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