An exploration of internal factors influencing student learning of programming

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 95, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-34

  Carbone, Angela ^a   Hurst, John ^a   Mitchell, Ian ^a   Gunstone, Dick ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST YEAR; LEARNING-OF-PROGRAMMING; STUDENT LEARNING; STUDENT MOTIVATION; TWO-DIMENSION;

MOTIVATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869102563     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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