Progress report on the study of program reading

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 168-176

  Koltun, Philip ^a   Deimel, Lionel E ^a   Perry, Jo ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; PROGRAM READING; PROGRESS REPORT; READING COMPREHENSION TESTS; RESEARCH AGENDA;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0020703213     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/952978.801040     Document Type: Article

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