Kick-Start Activation to Novice Programming - A Visualization-Based Approach

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 224, Issue C, 2009, Pages 125-132

  Lahtinen, Essi ^a   Ahoniemi, Tuukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Kick start activation; Novice programmers; Teaching programming; Visualizations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; STUDENTS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DEEP STRUCTURES; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSES; KICK-START ACTIVATION; LEARNING PROGRAMMINGS; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; POSITIVE FEEDBACKS; TEACHING PROGRAMMING; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 58149196286     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcs.2008.12.056     Document Type: Article

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