Effects of curriculum adjustments on first-year programming courses: Students' performance and achievment

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Huet e Silva, Isabel ^a   Pacheco, Osvaldo ^a   Tavares, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Engineering and Science students' academic achievement; First year programming teaching practice

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; EPISTEMOLOGICAL POSITIONS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULA; DATA STRUCTURES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 1642479294     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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