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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
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
PL-detective: a system for teaching programming language concepts
The educational literature recognizes that people go through a number of stages in their intellectual development. During the first stage, called received knowledge or dualism, p...
Amer Diwan, William M. Waite, Michele H. Jackson
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching programming and language concepts using LEGOs
concepts more concrete. The method has two main learning outcomes: • Language Specification – The goal of the assignment is to be able to build LEGO® creations on a standard g...
Cynthia S. Hood, Dennis J. Hood
VL
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 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, ...