Factors affecting the success of non-majors in learning to program

Proceedings of the 1st International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 13-24

  Wiedenbeck, Susan ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; End user programmers; Knowledge organization; Learning to program; Non majors; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

END-USER PROGRAMMERS; KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION; LEARNING TO PROGRAM; NON-MAJORS; SELF-EFFICACY;

CURRICULA;

EID: 33745186205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089786.1089788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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