Results from the evaluation of the effectiveness of an online tutor on expression evaluation

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 216-220

  Kumar, Amruth N ^a  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Science I; Evaluation; Expression; Feedback; Programming; Tutor; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DISTANCE EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EXPRESSION; PROGRAMMING; RUN-TIME ERRORS; TUTOR;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 20444433240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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