Education: Alice 3: Concrete to abstract

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 27-29

  Dann, Wanda ^a   Cooper, Stephen ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS; CONCURRENT EXECUTION; DRAG-AND-DROP; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; GRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RAPID PROTOTYPING TOOL; SIMPLE GAMES; SYNTAX ERRORS; VIRTUAL REALITY - ANIMATION; VISUAL OBJECTS;

ANIMATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MICROCOMPUTERS;

EID: 69149083231     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1536616.1536628     Document Type: Article

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