What do teachers teach in introductory programming?

ICER 2006 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-28

  Schulte, Carsten ^a   Bennedsen, Jens ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IT University West   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Course design; CS1; Object interaction; OO programming; Program comprehension

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

ABSTRACT STRUCTURES; COURSE DESIGNS; OBJECT INTERACTIONS; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34247339383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151588.1151593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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