Analysis of research into the teaching and learning of programming

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 93-104

  Sheard, Judy ^a   Simon, ^b   Hamilton, Margaret ^c   Lönnberg, Jan ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classifying publications; Computing education; Research methods; Teaching and learning of programming

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; COMPUTING EDUCATION; MODELS OF LEARNING; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH PAPERS; STUDENT LEARNING; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; QUALITY CONTROL; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 70449725418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1584322.1584334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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