Teaching computational thinking through bioinformatics to biology students

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 188-191

  Qin, Hong ^a  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Computational thinking; Life sciences

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; COMPUTER LABORATORY; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; HANDS-ON LEARNING; INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE; LIFE-SCIENCES; MODERN BIOLOGY; MODERN SCIENCE; WORK FORCE;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77955140103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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