Teaching empirical skills and concepts in computer science using random walks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 41-45

  Braught, Grant ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical concepts; Empirical skills; Random walk; Turtle graphics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CURRICULA; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STUDENTS;

EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS; EMPIRICAL SKILLS; RANDOM WALK; TURTLE GRAPHICS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 20444464517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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