Learning to program = learning to construct mechanisms and explanations

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 1986, Pages 850-858

  Soloway, E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0022775151     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/6592.6594     Document Type: Article

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