Concretising the programming task: A case study in a secondary school

Computers and Education

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-135

  Lavonen, Jari M ^a   Meisalo, Veijo P ^a   Lattu, Matti ^a   Sutinen, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Concrete representation; Control technology; Flowcharting; Programming; Secondary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867935184     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1315(02)00101-X     Document Type: Article

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