Personalizing CS1 with robots

SIGCSE Bulletin Inroads

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 433-437

  Summet, Jay ^a   Kumar, Deepak ^b   O'hara, Keith ^a   Walker, Daniel ^a   Ni, Lijun ^a   Blank, Doug ^b   Balch, Tucker ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cs1; pedagogy; robots

Indexed keywords

CS1; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; PEDAGOGY; PERSONAL ROBOT; ROBOT CONTROLS;

CURRICULA; ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78651564256     PISSN: 10963936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1539024.1509018     Document Type: Article

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