Initial experience with a computational thinking course for computer science students

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 251-256

  Kafura, Dennis ^a   Tatar, Deborah ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational thinking; CS0; Curriculum; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; CS0; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; PEDAGOGY; PHYSICAL SIMULATION; STUDENT INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 79954449484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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