Exploring students' understanding of the concept of algorithm: Levels of abstraction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 64-68

  Perrenet, Jacob ^a   Groote, Jan Friso ^a   Kaasenbrood, Eric ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Computer science education

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 29844440450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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