Programming: Factors that influence success

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 411-415

  Bergin, Susan ^a   Reilly, Ronan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

CS1; Predictors; Programming

Indexed keywords

CS1; LEAVING CERTIFICATE (LC) MATHEMATICS; PREDICTORS; PROGRAMMING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 20444492062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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