Information technology contests - Introduction to computer science in an attractive way

Informatics in Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-46

  Dagiene, Valentina ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Competition; Computer science; Information and communication technology; Learning by doing; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646056968     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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