Scaffolding with object diagrams in first year programming classes: Some unexpected results

Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 250-254

  Thomas, Lynda ^a   Ratcliffe, Mark ^a   Thomasson, Benjy ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First Year Programming; Interaction Diagrams; Object Diagrams; Tracing code

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

FIRST YEAR PROGRAMMING; INTERACTION DIAGRAMS; OBJECT DIAGRAMS; TRACING CODES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 2642542624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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