Mediated transfer: Alice 3 to Java

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 141-146

  Dann, Wanda ^a   Cosgrove, Dennis ^a   Slater, Don ^a   Culyba, Dave ^a   Cooper, Steve ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; Java; mediated transfer

Indexed keywords

ALICE; EDUCATIONAL THEORY; INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS; JAVA; MEDIATED TRANSFER; PROGRAMMING COURSE;

TEACHING;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84858991152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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