Our failing students: A study of a repeat group

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 223-227

  Sheard, Judy ^a   Hagan, Dianne ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Failure rates; Introductory programming; Student motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943093612     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/290320.283550     Document Type: Article

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