A multi-national study of reading and tracing skills in novice programmers

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 119-150

  Lister, Raymond ^a   Fone, William ^b   McCartney, Robert ^c   Seppälä, Otto ^d   Adams, Elizabeth S ^e   Hamer, John ^f   Moström, Jan Erik ^g   Simon, Beth ^h   Fitzgerald, Sue ⁱ   Lindholm, Morten ^j   Sanders, Kate ^k   Thomas, Lynda ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

ⁱ METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^k RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^l ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; ROUTINE PROGRAMMING; TRACING SKILLS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 33646826512     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1041624.1041673     Document Type: Conference Paper

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