Program working storage: A beginner's model

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 276, Issue , 2006, Pages 69-76

  Vagianou, Evgenia ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

constructivist instruction; introductory programming; preconceptions; teaching programming; threshold concepts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; END USERS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

RESEARCH; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77953518838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1315803.1315816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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