CS minors in a CS1 course

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 79-90

  Kinnunen, Päivi ^a   Malmi, Lauri ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

CS1; Difficulties; Drop out; Non major CS students; Programming

Indexed keywords

DROPS; MANAGEMENT; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STUDENTS;

CS1; DIFFICULTIES; DROP OUT; NON-MAJOR CS STUDENTS; PROGRAMMING;

TEACHING;

EID: 59249098975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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