Relationship of early programming language to novice generated design

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 495-499

  Chen, Tzu Yi ^a   Monge, Alvaro ^b   Simon, Beth ^c  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Design; First competency; Multi institutional; Novice; Paradigm; Programming language

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

FIRST COMPETENCY; MULTI INSTITUTIONAL;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 37849040536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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