Paper: A Mentor Program in CS1

Paper: A Mentor Program in CS1 — education

Posted on April 8th, 2003 by Sacha Chua
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Amanda Miller, Judy Kay

I can’t find a free online URL for this, but it’s in the ACM Digital Library.

Maybe it might be a good idea to have compulsory group mentoring for freshmen computer science students…

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