Helping students build a mental model of computation

ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 128-131

  Kollmansberger, Steve ^a  

^a South Puget Sound Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Online tutoring; Program tracing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; ATTRITION RATE; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; MENTAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77955127555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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