Choosing a first programming language

SIGITE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Information Technology Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-164

  Kaplan, Randy ^a  

^a KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; First programming language; Novices

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT CONCEPT; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; EDUCATIONAL NEEDS; GENERAL-PURPOSE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; INDUSTRY TRENDS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; NOVICES; PROGRAMMING COURSE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); BIOGRAPHIES; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 78649608027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1867651.1867697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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