A study of the development of students' visualizations of program state during an elementary object-oriented programming course

Third International Computing Education Research Workshop, ICER'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-15

  Sajaniemi, Jorma ^a   Kuittinen, Marja ^a   Tikansalo, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

CS1 2; Mental representation; Object oriented programming; Program state; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

MENTAL REPRESENTATION; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAM EXECUTION; PROGRAM STATES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 38849097648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1288580.1288582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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