Principles for designing programming exercises to minimise poor learning behaviours in students

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn Part F129121, Issue , 2000, Pages 26-33

  Carbone, Angela ^a   Hurst, John ^a   Mitchell, Ian ^a   Gunstone, Dick ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION; TEACHING;

FIRST YEAR; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; PROGRAMMING EXERCISE; PROGRAMMING TASKS; STUDENT LEARNING; STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENTS; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 0012093161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/359369.359374     Document Type: Conference Paper

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