Enrichment Of Student Learning And Homework Management With Use Of GitHub In An Introductory Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Course Series On Software Engineering And Data Science
- Award ID(s):
- 1633216
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10280354
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Engineering Education
- Volume:
- 54
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 0009-2479
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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