Antecedents to end users' success in learning to program in an introductory programming course

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 69-72

  Wiedenbeck, Susan ^a   Sun, Xiaoning ^a   Chintakovid, Thippaya ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END USERS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSES; JOINT EFFECTS; MULTIPLE FACTORS;

LINGUISTICS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 45849122680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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