Stepping up to integrative questions on CS1 exams

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 253-258

  Zingaro, Daniel ^a   Petersen, Andrew ^a   Craig, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CS1; exams; novice programming

Indexed keywords

CODE-WRITING; CONCEPT QUESTIONS; CS1; EXAMS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84858990465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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