Teaching programming concepts to high school students with alice

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Ting Chung ^a   Mei, Wen Hui ^a   Lin, Shu Ling ^a   Chiu, Sheng Kuang ^a   Lin, Janet Mei Chuen ^b  

^a Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alice programming; Computer education; Programming instruction

Indexed keywords

ARITHMETIC EXPRESSION; BUILT-IN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER EDUCATION; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77951480227     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2009.5350486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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