Assignment and sequence: Why some students can't recognise a simple swap

Proceedings - 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Koli Calling'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 10-15

  Simon, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

CS1; Examination papers; Introductory programming

Indexed keywords

CS1; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS; PROCEDURAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING COURSE; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84856649990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2094131.2094134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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