Learning to program with personal robots: Influences on student motivation

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  McGill, Monica M ^a  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human Factors; Languages

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS; PERSONAL ROBOT; STUDENT MOTIVATION;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; QUERY LANGUAGES; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84859416463     PISSN: 19466226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2133797.2133801     Document Type: Article

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