Empirical foundation of central concepts for computer science education

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Zendler, Andreas ^a   Spannagel, Christian ^a  

^a LUDWIGSBURG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central concepts; Fundamental ideas

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CENTRAL CONCEPTS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 44649110145     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1362787.1362790     Document Type: Article

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