Understanding abstraction: a means of leveling the playing field in CS1?

Celina Gibbs, Yvonne Coady. Understanding abstraction: a means of leveling the playing field in CS1?. In William R. Cook, Siobhán Clarke, Martin C. Rinard, editors, Companion to the 25th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, SPLASH/OOPSLA 2010, October 17-21, 2010, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, USA. pages 169-174, ACM, 2010. [doi]

@inproceedings{GibbsC10,
  title = {Understanding abstraction: a means of leveling the playing field in CS1?},
  author = {Celina Gibbs and Yvonne Coady},
  year = {2010},
  doi = {10.1145/1869542.1869569},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1869542.1869569},
  tags = {abstraction},
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  pages = {169-174},
  booktitle = {Companion to the 25th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, SPLASH/OOPSLA 2010, October 17-21, 2010, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, USA},
  editor = {William R. Cook and Siobhán Clarke and Martin C. Rinard},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0240-1},
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