A crash course for preparing students for a first course in computing: Did it work?

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 409-413

  Christensen, Ken ^a   Rundus, Dewey ^a   Fujinoki, Hiroshi ^b   Davis, Darrel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; FORMAL LANGUAGES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOOT CAMP; COURSE DESIGN; FORMULA CRUNCHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 5144231624     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2002.tb00725.x     Document Type: Review

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