The dimensions of variation in the teaching of data structures

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

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 92-96

  Lister, Raymond ^a   Tenenberg, Josh ^b   Box, Ilona ^c   Morrison, Brians ^d   Westbrook, D Suzanne ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

CS2; Data structures; Introductory programming; Java Collections Framework; Phenomenography; STL

Indexed keywords

CS2; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; JAVA COLLECTIONS FRAMEWORK; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; STL;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33646838428     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1026487.1008023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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