The greenfoot programming environment

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Kölling, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Greenfoot; Programming education; Programming environment

Indexed keywords

DESIGN GOAL; GREENFOOT; INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; TARGET AUDIENCE; TEACHING PROGRAMMING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WEB SERVICES;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78650502293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1868358.1868361     Document Type: Article

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