Understanding the syntax barrier for novices

ITiCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 208-212

  Denny, Paul ^a   Luxton Reilly, Andrew ^a   Tempero, Ewan ^a   Hendrickx, Jacob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

assessment; codewrite; constructive evaluation; drill and practice; java; student generated exercises; syntax

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT; CODEWRITE; CONSTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; JAVA; STUDENT-GENERATED EXERCISES; SYNTAX;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DRILLS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; STUDENTS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 79960288309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999747.1999807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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