Teaching recursion in a procedural environment - How much should we emphasize the computing model?

SIGCSE 1999 - Proceedings of the 13th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 127-131

  Ginat, David ^a   Shifroni, Eyal ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Problem decomposition; Recursive formulation

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COLLEGE STUDENTS; COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; COMPUTING MODEL; PROBLEM DECOMPOSITION; PROCEDURAL PROGRAMMING; RECURSIONS; RECURSIVE FORMULATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84974530157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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