Relationship between text and action conceptions of programming: A phenomenographic and quantitative perspective

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 33-37

  Eckerdal, Anna ^a   Laakso, Mikko Jussi ^b   Lopez, Mike ^c   Sarkar, Amitrajit ^d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c MANUKAU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^d CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

critical aspects; hierarchy; novice programming; phenomenographic outcome space; text and action

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ASPECTS; HIERARCHY; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; PHENOMENOGRAPHIC OUTCOME SPACE; TEXT AND ACTION;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; TEACHING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79960309656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1999747.1999760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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