Student transformations: Are they computer scientists yet?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-140

  Zander, Carol ^a   Boustedt, Jonas ^b   McCartney, Robert ^c,g   Moström, Jan Erik ^d   Sanders, Kate ^e,g   Thomas, Lynda ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b Högskolan I Gävle ^*  (Sweden)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^f ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Student biographies; Threshold concepts; Transformations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; COMPUTING COMMUNITY; THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE; THRESHOLD CONCEPTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449728311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1584322.1584337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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