Making university education more like middle school computer club: Facilitating the flow of inspiration

WCCCE 2009 - Proceedings of the 14th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-16

  Repenning, Alexander ^a   Basawapatna, Ashok ^a   Koh, Kyu Han ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational thinking; Flow of inspiration; Middle school programming education; Open classroom; Peer to peer interaction; Scalable game design; University programming education

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL GAME; GAME DESIGN; LEARNING COMMUNITY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; PEER-TO-PEER INTERACTION; PROGRAMMING CLASS; PROGRAMMING EDUCATION; PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; UNIVERSITY EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY LEVELS; UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77953034042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536274.1536281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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