Programming by discovery

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-93

  Ramadhan, Haider Ali ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Control group; Discovery learning; Empirical evaluations; Interaction; Interface; Post secondary; Programming environment; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034339957     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2729.2000.00118.x     Document Type: Article

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