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Towards literate tools for novice programmers

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Andy Cockburn,

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ACSE '97: Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian conference on Computer science education

Pages 107 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299376

Published: 02 July 1997 Publication History

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Towards literate tools for novice programmers
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
2. Software and its engineering

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ACSE '97: Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian conference on Computer science education

July 1997

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ISBN:0897919580

DOI:10.1145/299359

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Hillenbrand EPalmer J(2010)Writing software to be understoodJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/1858583.185859826:2(106-112)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1858583.1858598
Dinmore MNorcio A(2007)Literacy for the Masses: Integrating Software and Knowledge Reuse for End-User Developers Through Literate Programming2007 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration10.1109/IRI.2007.4296662(455-460)Online publication date: Aug-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI.2007.4296662

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