Psychological characteristics of students taking programming-oriented and applications-oriented computing courses

Journal of Educational Computing Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-182

  Charlton, John P ^a   Birkett, Paul E ^a  

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EID: 0032218199     PISSN: 07356331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PV8X-JM1B-G9HK-UM2Y     Document Type: Article

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