Controversy on how to teach CS 1: A discussion on the SIGCSE-members mailing list

Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Bruce, Kim B ^a,b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Controversy; CS 1; Java; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

INTRODUCTORY COURSE; MAILING LISTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INNOVATION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH;

EID: 77953829782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1044550.1041652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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