The future of teaching programming is on mobile devices

Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 156-161

  Tillmann, Nikolai ^a   Moskal, Michal ^a   De Halleux, Jonathan ^a   Fahndrich, Manuel ^a   Bishop, Judith ^a   Samuel, Arjmand ^a   Xie, Tao ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud; evolution; mobile devices; touchscreen; type inference

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING DEVICES; COMPUTING-TASK; EVOLUTION; INSTANT GRATIFICATION; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION; TEACHING METHODS; TEACHING PROGRAMMING; TEACHING-OF-PROGRAMMING; TECHNOLOGY SHIFT; TYPE INFERENCES;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MOBILE DEVICES; SMARTPHONES; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TOUCH SCREENS;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84864649017     PISSN: 1942647X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2325296.2325336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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