Through the looking glass: Teaching CS0 with Alice

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 213-217

  Powers, Kris ^a   Ecott, Stacey ^a   Hirshfield, Leanne M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Novice programming environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; TEACHING;

NOVICE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; TEACHING CS0;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34748894187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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