Successful and unsuccessful problem solving approaches of novice programmers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 24-28

  Hanks, Brian ^a   Brandt, Matt ^a  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed pair programming; Introductory programming; Java; Novice; Pair programming; Problem solving approaches

Indexed keywords

INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; JAVA; JAVA LANGUAGE; NOVICE; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; STUDENT MISCONCEPTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STUDENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 77956205911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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