Dancing with dynalab: Endearing the science of computing to students

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-139

  Boroni, Christopher M ^a   Eneboe, Torlief J ^a   Goosey, Frances W ^a   Ross, Jason A ^a   Ross, Rockford J ^a  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMATION; CD-ROM; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PASCAL (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); USER INTERFACES;

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; LABORATORY COURSE; LEARNING CURVES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT TOOLS; SPACE COMPLEXITY; STUDENT LEARNING; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES;

STUDENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHM ANIMATION; DYNALAB; EDUCATION MACHINE;

EID: 0029719223     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/236462.236526     Document Type: Article

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