Teaching roles of variables in elementary programming courses

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

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 57-61

  Kuittinen, Marja ^a   Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Elementary programming; Roles of variables; Teaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

ELEMENTARY PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING COURSES; ROLE BASED TEACHING; ROLES OF VARIABLES;

TEACHING;

EID: 33646846463     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: 00978418     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1026487.1008014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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