A multi-institutional investigation of computer science seniors' knowledge of programming concepts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 510-514

  Murphy, Laurie ^a   Fossum, Timothy ^b   Haller, Susan ^b   Sanders, Kate ^c   McCauley, Renée ^d   Morrison, Briana B ^e   Zander, Carol ^f   Westbrook, Suzanne ^g   Richards, Brad ^h   Anderson, Ruth E ⁱ  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PARKSIDE   (United States)

^c RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^d School of Business and Economics   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Card sort; Content analysis; Expertise; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

CARD SORT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EXPERTISE; KNOWLEDGE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 20444483768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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