Advanced placement computer science: The future of tracking the first year of instruction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 397-398

  Astrachan, Owen ^a   Walker, Henry ^b   Stephenson, Chris ^c   Diaz, Lien ^d   Cuny, Jan ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CSTA ^*

^d Advanced Placement Program   (United States)

^e NSF   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED PLACEMENT COMPUTER SCIENCE; ADVANCED PLACEMENTS; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMS; FIRST YEAR;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77956205501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1509005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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