Early Relational Reasoning and the Novice Programmer: Swapping as the "Hello World" of Relational Reasoning

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 114, Issue , 2011, Pages 95-104

  Corney, Malcolm ^a   Lister, Raymond ^b   Teague, Donna ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chunking.; Novice programmer; Solo

Indexed keywords

CHUNKING; LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; PROGRAMMING EXERCISE; RELATIONAL REASONING; SOLO;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84872772322     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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