Filling the gap in programming instruction: A text-enhanced graphical programming environment for junior high students

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 276-280

  Cheung, Joey C Y ^a   Ngai, Grace ^a   Chan, Stephen C F ^a   Lau, Winnie W Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Education; Programming environments

Indexed keywords

DRAG-AND-DROP; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; ICON-BASED PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTORY COURSE; JUNIOR HIGH STUDENTS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; PROGRAMMING INSTRUCTION; TEXTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SYNTACTICS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953977389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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