Describes the highlights of the activities and papers presented at the conference including the following: an analysis of Chinese data processing systems and Chinese sentences, natural language processing, language lesson authoring systems, character recognition, and character input. Future work in the field may include studies on Chinese…

Teaching of computer programming in elementary and secondary schools has become a very popular activity. The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the empirical research on the benefits of learning computer programming on students' cognition abilities. The paper focuses on the question: Do the skills of computer programming transfer to…