Learning from wrong and creative algorithm design

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 26-30

  Ginat, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Creative reasoning; Learning from mistakes; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

ALGORITHM DESIGNS; COGNITIVE ASPECTS; CREATIVE REASONING; LEARNING FROM MISTAKES; TEACHING MATERIALS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 57449103554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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