Thinking about Computational Thinking

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 260-264

  Lu, James J ^a   Fletcher, George H L ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Thinking; K 12 education; Language

Indexed keywords

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES; COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; INTELLECTUAL CONTENT; K-12 EDUCATION; LANGUAGE; LITERARY ANALYSIS; MENTAL MODEL; PROCESS INFORMATION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LINGUISTICS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77952124526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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