On the achievements of high school students studying computational models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 17-21

  Michal, Armoni ^a   Gal Ezer, Judith ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computational model; Computer related background; Finite automata; Mathematics level; Pushdown automata; Turing machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTER-RELATED BACKGROUND; MATHEMATICS LEVEL; PUSHDOWN AUTOMATA;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FINITE AUTOMATA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TURING MACHINES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 10044289533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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