The effects of hypercard programming on teacher education students’ problem-solving ability and computer anxiety

Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 248-262

  Liu, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer anxiety; Problem solving; Programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007810291     PISSN: 08886504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08886504.1997.10782197     Document Type: Article

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