Student opinions of Alice in CS1

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cliburn, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; CS1; Evaluation; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ALICE; CONTINUED USE; CS1; EVALUATION; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGNS; PRIOR EXPERIENCES; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; RECURSION; SYNTAX ERRORS; TIME SPENT; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

TEACHING;

EID: 60549101071     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2008.4720254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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