Using Alice in overview courses to improve success rates in Programming I

Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-136

  Johnsgard, Karin ^a   McDonald, James ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATED MOVIES; ENGINEERING DEPARTMENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 51749114679     PISSN: 10930175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSEET.2008.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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