Smalltalk scaffolding: A case study of minimalist instruction

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1990, Pages 423-429

  Rosson, Mary Beth ^a   Carroll, John M ^a   Bellamy, Rachel K E ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Education; Learning; Objectoriented programming

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SCAFFOLDS;

CURRICULUM DESIGNS; ERROR RECOGNITION; EXAMPLE-BASED LEARNING; LEARNING; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SMALLTALK;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85051525407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/97243.97319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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