A snapshot of current practices in teaching the introductory programming sequence

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 625-630

  Davies, Stephen ^a   Polack Wahl, Jennifer A ^a   Anewalt, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

CS0; CS1; CS2; Programming languages; Survey

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING EDUCATION; CS0; CS1; CS2; CURRENT PRACTICES; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING SEQUENCE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 79954430044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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