Roles of variables and programming skills improvement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 413-417

  Byckling, Pauli ^a   Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Roles of variables

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; CURRICULA; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

PROGRAMMING SKILLS; ROLES OF VARIABLES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 37849046230     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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