Visual programming languages integrated across the curriculum in elementary school: A two year case study using "scratch" in five schools

Computers and Education

Volumn 97, Issue , 2016, Pages 129-141

  Sáez López, José Manuel ^a   Román González, Marcos ^a   Vázquez Cano, Esteban ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Computational thinking; Elementary education; Improving classroom teaching; Programming and programming languages; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGES; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CURRICULA; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84962326346     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2016.03.003     Document Type: Article

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