A fresh look at novice programmers' performance and their teachers' expectations

ITiCSE-WGR 2013 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-32

  Utting, Ian ^a   Tew, Allison Elliott ^b   McCracken, Mike ^c   Thomas, Lynda ^d   Bouvier, Dennis ^e   Frye, Roger ^e   Paterson, James ^f   Caspersen, Michael ^g   Kolikant, Yifat Ben David ^h   Sorva, Juha ⁱ   Wilusz, Tadeusz ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

^f GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

ⁱ AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^j CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Assessment; CS1; Programming; Replication

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SCAFFOLDS; SURVEYS;

ASSESSMENT; CS1; NOVICE PROGRAMMER; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; PROGRAMMING TASKS; REPLICATION; WORKING GROUPS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84893416747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2543882.2543884     Document Type: Conference Paper

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