Loop exits and structured programming: Reopening the debate

Proceedings of the 26th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 268-272

  Roberts, Eric S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

CONTROL STRUCTURE; PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH;

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85030648771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/199688.199815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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