Identifying student misconceptions of programming

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 107-111

  Kaczmarczyk, Lisa C ^a   Petrick, Elizabeth R ^a   East, J Philip ^b   Herman, Geoffrey L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept inventory; CS1; Curriculum; Misconceptions; Pedagogy; Programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS; CONCEPT INVENTORIES; CONCEPT INVENTORY; MEMORY MODELS; STUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77952143736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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