Computational Thinking in Life Science Education

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Rubinstein, Amir ^a   Chor, Benny ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; TEACHING;

ABSTRACT THINKING; ALGORITHMIC THINKING; COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; DESIGN STRUCTURE; LIFE SCIENTISTS; LIFE-SCIENCES; LOGICAL THINKING; SCIENCE EDUCATION; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; THINKING PROCESS;

STUDENTS;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL THINKING; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCIENTIST; STUDENT; THINKING; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84912084327     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003897     Document Type: Article

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