Problem distributions in a CS1 course

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 52, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-173

  Robins, Anthony ^a   Haden, Patricia ^b   Garner, Sandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b OTAGO POLYTECHNIC   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Learning novice programming errors CS1

Indexed keywords

COURSE DESIGN; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSE; LABORATORY EXERCISE; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84869025354     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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