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New models for the CS1 course: what are they and are they leading to the same place?

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Barbara Boucher Owens,

Robert D. Cupper,

Stuart Hirshfield,

Walter Potter,

Richard SalterAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

Pages 364 - 365

https://doi.org/10.1145/191029.191169

Published: 12 March 1994 Publication History

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Salter RCupper RHirshfield SSharp A(2009)New models for the CS1 courseACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1539024.150898741:1(335-336)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1539024.1508987
Salter RCupper RHirshfield SSharp AFitzgerald SGuzdial MLewandowski GWolfman S(2009)New models for the CS1 courseProceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1508865.1508987(335-336)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1508865.1508987
Grout JStrader RHanks J(1996)Essential C++ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/228296.22829728:2(3-14)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1996
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/228296.228297

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New models for the CS1 course: what are they and are they leading to the same place?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

March 1994

414 pages

ISBN:0897916468

DOI:10.1145/191029

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 26, Issue 1
March 1994
410 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/191033
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Salter RCupper RHirshfield SSharp A(2009)New models for the CS1 courseACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/1539024.150898741:1(335-336)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1539024.1508987
Salter RCupper RHirshfield SSharp AFitzgerald SGuzdial MLewandowski GWolfman S(2009)New models for the CS1 courseProceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/1508865.1508987(335-336)Online publication date: 4-Mar-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1508865.1508987
Grout JStrader RHanks J(1996)Essential C++ACM SIGCSE Bulletin10.1145/228296.22829728:2(3-14)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1996
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/228296.228297

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