Following Students' Suggestions for Rewriting a Computer Programming Textbook.
This paper discusses the results of two experiments in technical text-book design. In the first experiment, excerpts from two existing computer programming texts were given to a group of college students. Comprehension of both texts was found to be poor. and surprisingly, the subjects overwhelmingly...
| Publicado en: | American Educational Research Journal Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 259 - 270 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Fall1981
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