Wanted: CS1 students. No experience required

Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 240-244

  Ventura, Phil ^a   Ramamurthy, Bina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Curriculum; Object Oriented Design; Object Oriented Programming; Objects First; Predictors of Success; Prior Programming Experience

Indexed keywords

CS1; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECTS-FIRST; PREDICTORS OF SUCCESS; PRIOR PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; ENCAPSULATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 2642532090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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