The same but different: Students' understandings of primitive and object variables

Koli Calling 2008 - 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5-15

  Sorva, Juha ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

CS1; Misconceptions; Phenomenography; Students'understandings; Variables

Indexed keywords

CS1; MENTAL MODEL; NON-VIABLE; PHENOMENOGRAPHY; PRIMITIVE VARIABLES; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE TOOL; STUDENT INTERVIEWS; TEACHING MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70450189428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1595356.1595360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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