Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 307-311

  Fagin, Barry ^a   Merkle, Laurence ^b  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Lego; Pedagogy; Programming environments; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); PROGRAM DEBUGGING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER ENGINEERING; LEGO; PEDAGOGY; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0037673520     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/792548.611994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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