Mental models of recursion

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 346-350

  Götschi, Tina ^a   Sanders, Ian ^a   Galpin, Vashti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Learning; Mental models; Pedagogy; Programming; Recursion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; STUDENTS;

MENTAL MODELS; RECURSIVE PROGRAMS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 0038011430     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/792548.612004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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