Retina: Helping students and instructors based on observed programming activities

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 178-182

  Murphy, Christian ^a   Kaiser, Gail ^a   Loveland, Kristin ^a   Hasan, Sahar ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compilation errors; CS1; CS2; Tutoring systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM SETTINGS; COMPILATION ERRORS; CRITICAL QUESTIONS; CS1; CS2; CS2 COURSE; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS; TIME SPENT; TUTORING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ERRORS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449698754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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