Decoding doodles: Novice programmers and their annotations

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 66, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-180

  Whalley, Jacqueline ^a   Prasad, Christine ^b   Kumar, P K Ajith ^c  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b UNITEC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c TOI OHOMAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Annotation; Cognitive taxonomies; Computing education; Doodle; Novice programming

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION; COMPUTING EDUCATION; DOODLE; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; QUESTION TYPE; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

TAXONOMIES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869146252     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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