An approach to teaching design patterns using musical composition

Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 156-160

  Hamer, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Design patterns; Musical composition; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; EDUCATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS;

CONSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN; DESIGN PATTERNS; GRAMMAR; SEQUENTIAL COMPOSITION;

TEACHING;

EID: 10044228474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1007996.1008038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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