Kara, finite state machines, and the case for programming as part of general education

2001 IEEE Symposium on Human-Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 135-141

  Hartmann, W ^a   Nievergelt, J ^a   Reichert, R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FINITE STATE MACHINES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035790779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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