Education: K-12 computational learning

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 27-29

  Cooper, Stephen ^a   Pérez, Lance C ^b   Rainey, Daphne ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NSF's Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT REPRESENTATION; COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; POWERPOINT; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING , AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATIONS; STUDENT LEARNING; THEORIES OF LEARNING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 78149243475     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1839676.1839686     Document Type: Review

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