Not seeing the forest for the trees: Novice programmers and the SOLO taxonomy

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 118-122

  Lister, Raymond ^a   Simon, Beth ^b   Thompson, Errol ^c   Whalley, Jacqueline L ^d   Prasad, Christine ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^e UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Comprehension; CS1; Novice programmers; SOLO taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS;

COMPREHENSION; CS1; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; SOLO TAXONOMY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 33748963078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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