Journal article
Why computer science students find formal reasoning frightening
Abstract
Abstract This paper focuses on difficulties which first‐year undergraduate computer science students experience in learning formal reasoning techniques. The main findings from an empirical investigation are reported. These indicated that, in the student population studied, many of those difficulties stemmed from a combination of the mathematical content of the courses and the students' unfamiliarity with formal notations and language. The …
Authors
Fung P; O'Shea T; Goldson D; Reeves S; Bornat R
Journal
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 240–250
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
12 1994
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2729.1994.tb00299.x
ISSN
0266-4909