What does it take to learn 'programming thinking'?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 135-142

  Eckerdal, Anna ^a   Berglund, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Levels of abstraction; Phenomenography; Process object duality

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; PROCESS-OBJECT DUALITY;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 33745189115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089786.1089799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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