On the nature of fires and how to spark them when you're not there

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 305-310

  Esper, Sarah ^a   Foster, Stephen R ^a   Griswold, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Learning; Authentic Practice; CS0; CS1; Gamification; Grounded Theory; Informal Learning Spaces; Origin Stories

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; AUTHENTIC PRACTICE; GAMIFICATION; GROUNDED THEORY; INFORMAL LEARNING; ORIGIN STORIES;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84876250620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2445196.2445290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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