A closer look at tracing, explaining and code writing skills in the novice programmer

ICER'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-128

  Venables, Anne ^a   Tan, Grace ^a   Lister, Raymond ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comprehension; CS1; Hierarchy; Novice programmers; Tracing

Indexed keywords

CODE-WRITING; COMPUTING EDUCATION; EXAM QUESTIONS; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; PROGRAMMING ABILITY; RESEARCH APPROACH; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; STUDENT RESPONSE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; RESEARCH;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449700407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1584322.1584336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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