The inverted curriculum in practice

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 481-485

  Pedroni, Michela ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CS1; Inverted curriculum; Objects first; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

INVERTED CURRICULUM; PEDAGOGY;

CURRICULA;

EID: 37849017220     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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