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...

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Published in:	American Educational Research Journal Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 259 - 270
Main Author:	Pepper, Jeff
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Fall1981
Subjects:	Textbooks Computer programming College students Comprehension Universities & colleges Books Education
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