Proof by incomplete enumeration and other logical misconceptions

ICER'08 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 59-70

  Herman, Geoffrey L ^a   Kaczmarczyk, Lisa ^b   Loui, Michael C ^a   Zilles, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept inventory; Digital logic; Discrete math; Formal logic; Misconceptions

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT TOOLS; BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS; COMPUTER ENGINEERS; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; CONCEPT INVENTORY; DIGITAL LOGIC; DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGNS; DISCRETE MATH; MISCONCEPTIONS; PROBLEM-SOLVING; PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC;

LOGIC DESIGN;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 78650760054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1404520.1404527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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