The effect of student attributes on success in programming

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 49-52

  Byrne, Pat ^a   Lyons, Gerry ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

ADAPTIVE LEARNING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035783847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/377435.377467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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