How to improve a virtual programming course?

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Meisalo, Veijo ^a   Sutinen, Erkki ^b   Torvinen, Sirpa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Distance learning; Dropouts; Programming; Virtual learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; HTML; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAM COMPILERS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; DROPOUTS; TEACHERS; VIRTUAL COURSE; VIRTUAL LEARNING; VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 0036954648     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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