CS Circles: An in-browser python course for beginners

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 591-596

  Pritchard, David ^a   Vasiga, Troy ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CS0 1; MOOCs; Python; Teacher Tools; WordPress

Indexed keywords

COURSE CONTENTS; CS0/1; IN BROWSERS; MOOCS; PYTHON; WORDPRESS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

TEACHING;

EID: 84876217042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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