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An active learning approach to teaching the data structures course

Published: 03 March 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe the how active learning techniques have been successfully applied in a CS 2 course.

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SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2006
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ISBN:1595932593
DOI:10.1145/1121341
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  1. active learning
  2. data structures

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