Teaching business programming using games: A critical analysis

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1433-1462

  Muganda, Nixon ^a   Joubert, Pieter ^a   Du Toit, Jacques ^a   Johnson, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Action research; Business programming; Information systems; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875244374     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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