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FECS
2006
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13 years 6 months ago
Infusing Parts-whole Relationship Critical Thinking Skill into Basic Computer Science Education
Improving the quality of student thinking should be given a high priority in any educational system as good thinking is essential in meeting the challenges of living in a rapidly ...
Muhammad Shafique, M. R. K. Krishna Rao
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Thinking about computational thinking
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
James J. Lu, George H. L. Fletcher
VL
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Language-based support for computational thinking
This paper explores the potential for simplified programming languages to support the development of computational thinking skills in non-programmers. We suggest that novice progr...
Katherine Howland, Judith Good, Keiron Nicholson
VL
2010
IEEE
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13 years 3 months ago
Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for Adaptive Visual Language Learning
Visual programming languages can be used to make computer science more accessible to a broad range of students. The evaluative focus of current research in the area of visual lang...
Kyu Han Koh, Ashok R. Basawapatna, Vicki Bennett, ...