Tools for teaching introductory programming: What works?

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 560-561

  Powers, Kris ^a   Gross, Paul ^a   Cooper, Steve ^b   McNally, Myles ^c   Goldman, Kenneth J ^d   Proulx, Viera ^e   Carlisle, Martin ^f  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALMA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Introductory programming; Novice programming environments

Indexed keywords

INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; LEGO MINDSTORMS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK; INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 37849002923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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