Undergraduate conceptions of the field of computer science

ICER 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 107-114

  Hewner, Michael ^a  

^a ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrations; Curriculum; Multi disciplinary

Indexed keywords

GROUNDED THEORY; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS; SUBFIELDS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CURRICULA;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84883547580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493394.2493414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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