Relationships between reading, tracing and writing skills in introductory programming

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-111

  Lopez, Mike ^a   Whalley, Jacqueline ^b   Robbins, Phil ^b   Lister, Raymond ^c  

^a MANUKAU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comprehension; CS1; Novice programmers; SOLO taxonomy

Indexed keywords

PROGRAMMING THEORY; TAXONOMIES;

CODE WRITINGS; COMPREHENSION; CS1; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERMEDIATE LEVELS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; SOLO TAXONOMY; STEP-WISE REGRESSIONS; STUDENT RESPONSE; WRITING SKILLS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 59249102004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404531     Document Type: Conference Paper

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