The efficacy of a low-level program visualization tool for teaching programming concepts to novice C programmers

Journal of Educational Computing Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-215

  Smith, Philip A ^a   Webb, Geoffrey I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b NONE

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EID: 0034345029     PISSN: 07356331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/N0VV-0P48-XJ9G-F8WV     Document Type: Article

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