Define and visualize your first programming language

Proceedings - The 8th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 324-326

  Laakso, Mikko Jussi ^a   Kaila, Erkki ^a   Rajala, Teemu ^a   Salakoski, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Executable pseudo code; Program visualization; Self definable pseudo code

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

EXECUTABLE PSEUDO CODE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTRODUCTORY CS; LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES; PROGRAM VISUALIZATION; PROGRAM VISUALIZATIONS; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PSEUDO CODES; PSEUDO LANGUAGE; SELF-DEFINABLE PSEUDO CODE; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR;

BASIC (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 51849132043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICALT.2008.313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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