An integrated programming environment for undergraduate computing courses

ITRE 2004 - 2nd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 141-144

  Price, Colin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer Science Education; CS1; CS2; Java; Pedagogy; Real Time Operating Systems; Robotics; Subsumption Architecture

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CS1; CS2; PEDAGOGY; REAL TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS; SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTURE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 28344448723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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