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Mayer, Richard E. – 1979
This discussion of the kind of knowledge acquired by a novice learning BASIC programming and how this knowledge may be most efficiently acquired suggests that people who do programming acquire three basic skills that are not obvious either in instruction or in traditional performance: (1) the ability to analyze each statement into a type of…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes, Learning Theories