Through the looking glass: Reflections on using undergraduate teaching assistants in CS1

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 46-50

  Decker, Adrienne ^a   Ventura, Phil ^b   Egert, Christopher ^c  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Undergraduate teaching assistants

Indexed keywords

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS;

CURRICULA; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 37849030798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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