Core empirical concepts and skills for computer science

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

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 245-249

  Braught, Grant ^a   Miller, Craig S ^b   Reed, David ^c  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical concepts; Empirical skills

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCIES; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS; EMPIRICAL SKILLS;

CURRICULA; DATA REDUCTION; JOB ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STANDARDS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 33646844267     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1028174.971388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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