Is it really an algorithm - The need for explicit discourse

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 74-78

  Haberman, Bruria ^a,b   Averbuch, Haim ^c,d   Ginat, David ^d  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Problem solving; Professional discourse

Indexed keywords

NOVICES; PROFESSION DISCOURSE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 29844457752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1067445.1067469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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