RoboCode & problem-based learning: A non-prescriptive approach to teaching programming

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 217-221

  O'Kelly, Jackie ^a   Gibson, J Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Computing Education Research

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

COMPUTING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING (PBL); ROBOCODE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748985612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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