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Improving the modularization ability of novice programmers

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 23, Issue 1

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Reichert HTabarsi BPrice TBarnes T(2024)Jigsaw: A Tool for Decomposing and Planning Programming Problems2024 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)10.1109/VL/HCC60511.2024.00034(236-247)Online publication date: 2-Sep-2024
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Applin A(2001)Second language acquisition and CS1ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/366413.36457933:1(174-178)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2001
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/366413.364579
Applin AWalker HMcCauley RGersting JRussell I(2001)Second language acquisition and CS1Proceedings of the thirty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/364447.364579(174-178)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2001
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/364447.364579

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