Levels of abstraction in students' understanding of the concept of algorithm: The qualitative perspective

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 270-274

  Perrenet, Jacob ^a   Kaasenbrood, Eric ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Computer science education; Research methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

ABSTRACTION; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE PERSPECTIVE; RESEARCH METHODS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 33748983944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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