Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory

Proceedings of the 10th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 89-93

  Eckerdal, Anna ^a   Thuné, Michael ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conceptions; Misconceptions; Phenomenography; Variation theory

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTIONS; MISCONCEPTIONS; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; VARIATION THEORY;

EDUCATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 29844436349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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