Engaging students of senior high school in simulation development;Vidurinės mokyklos mokinių sudominimas imitavimo kursu

Informatics in Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-62

  Glezou, Katerina ^a   Grigoriadou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Logo programming; Micro worlds pro; Microworlds; Simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952766702     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15388/infedu.2010.03     Document Type: Article

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