Experience report: CS1 for majors with media computation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 214-218

  Simon, Beth ^a   Kinnunen, Päivi ^a   Porter, Leo ^a   Zazkis, Dov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Media computation; Retention

Indexed keywords

EXAM QUESTIONS; EXPERIENCE REPORT; NON-MAJORS; PASS RATE; PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS; RETENTION RATE; STUDENT SUCCESS; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

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

TEACHING;

EID: 77955165412     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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