Coached program planning: Dialogue-based support for novice program design

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 148-152

  Lane, H Chad ^a   VanLehn, Kurt ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Coached program planning; Dialogue systems; Intelligent tutoring systems; Novice programming; Structured programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURRICULA; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PLANNING; STUDENTS;

COACHED PROGRAM PLANNING; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; NOVICE PROGRAM DESIGN;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0037673579     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/792548.611955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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