Six learning barriers in end-user programming systems

Proceedings - 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 199-206

  Ko, Andrew J ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a   Aung, Htet Htet ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; FILE EDITORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

END-USER PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BREAKDOWN; LEARNING BARRIERS; VISUAL BASIC .NET;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 16244412320     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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