Computer architecture and mental models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 101-105

  Yehezkel, Cecile ^a   Ben Ari, Mordechai ^a   Dreyfus, Tommy ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer architecture education; Mental models; Visualization

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

COGNITIVE SCIENCES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION; LEARNING MATERIALS; MENTAL MODELS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 20444475048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047344.1047390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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