Preface to the Special Issue on Automated Assessment of Programming Assignments

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-

  Brusilovsky, Peter ^a   Higgins, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33749329464     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1163405.1163406     Document Type: Article

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