Difficulties in learning and teaching programming - Views of students and tutors

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-66

  Milne, Iain ^a   Rowe, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Novices; Object orientation; Programming; Programming difficulties; Software visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144283135     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015362608943     Document Type: Article

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