Learning to program with COALA, a distributed computer assisted environment

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1472-1485

  Jurado, Francisco ^a   Molina, Ana I ^a   Redondo, Miguel A ^a   Ortega, Manuel ^a   Giemza, Adam ^b   Bollen, Lars ^b   Hoppe, H Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intelligent tutoring system; Learning programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 68749094221     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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