What do beginning students know, and what can they do?

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 329-

  Chen, Tzu Yi ^a   Lewandowski, Gary ^b   McCartney, Robert ^c   Sanders, Kate ^d   Simon, Beth ^e  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

^d RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Education research; Student back ground

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION;

CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDUCATION RESEARCH; STUDENT BACK-GROUND;

STUDENTS;

EID: 33748966273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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