A study of the difficulties of novice programmers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 14-18

  Lahtinen, Essi ^a   Ala Mutka, Kirsti ^a   Järvinen, Hannu Matti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Learning; Novices; Programming; Teaching, difficulties

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; NOVICES; PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 29844444452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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