Empowering students and building confidence in novice programmers through gauntlet

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Flowers, Thomas ^a   Carver, Curtis A ^a   Jackson, James ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Information Technology; Programming

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; PROGRAMMING COMPONENTS; SYNTAX;

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 21644443209     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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