Why students drop out CS1 course?

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

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 97-108

  Kinnunen, Päivi ^a   Malmi, Lauri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

CS1; Drop out reasons; Non major CS students

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; DECISION MAKING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

INTERVIEW RESEARCH; MINOR STUDENTS; STUDENT DECISION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 34247362448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151588.1151604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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