ASSISTing CS1 students to learn: Learning approaches and object-oriented programming

ITiCSE06 - Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 275-279

  Hughes, Janet ^a   Peiris, D Ramanee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning study approach; Programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS;

LEARNING PROFILES; LEARNING STUDY APPROACH; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748952463     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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