Predicting at-risk novice Java programmers through the analysis of online protocols

ICER'11 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 85-92

  Tabanao, Emily S ^a   Rodrigo, Ma Mercedes T ^b   Jadud, Matthew C ^c  

^a MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY ILIGAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Philippines)

^b ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^c ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; compilation behavior; cs1; java programming; novice programmers

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; COMPILATION BEHAVIOR; CS1; JAVA PROGRAMMING; NOVICE PROGRAMMER;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ERRORS; FORECASTING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 80053300757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2016911.2016930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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