Diversifying activities to improve student performance in programming courses

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 471, Issue , 2010, Pages 540-545

  Martins, Scheila Wesley ^a   Mendes, Antonio Jose ^a   Figueiredo, Antonio Dias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Programming learning; Research Communities; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

DROP-OUT; LEARNING ACTIVITY; PROGRAMMING COURSE; PROGRAMMING LEARNING; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SELF EFFICACY; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77956280317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1839379.1839476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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