Supporting computer science curriculum: Exploring and learning linked lists with iList

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-120

  Fossati, Davide ^a   Di Eugenio, Barbara ^a   Brown, Christopher W ^b   Ohlsson, Stellan ^c   Cosejo, David G ^c   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Computer assisted instruction; Constraint based modeling; Education; Evaluation methodology; Intelligent tutoring systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELING; EVALUATION/METHODOLOGY; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84862833420     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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