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Download full textKrish Pillai; Marcia Lovas – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
A typical first computer science course (CS1) introduces the student to coding conventions, variables, methods, control structures, conditionals, and the semantics of classes and objects. Advanced concepts of inheritance, polymorphism, abstract classes, interfaces, and their use in the design process, are covered in a second-level course (CS2).…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
Marshall, Krista Sekeres – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate student understanding and application of computational thinking patterns to novel situations. Over 500 students, who had just designed and programmed a Frogger-style game using the AgentSheets platform, responded to a newly developed video-prompt survey instrument administered in the Fall 2010 semester.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Grounded Theory, Thinking Skills, Games
Goldenson, Dennis – 1996
The assertion that "higher order" thinking skills can be improved by learning to program computers is not a new one. The idea endures even though the empirical evidence over the years has been mixed at best. In fact, there is no reason to expect that all programming courses will have identical, or even similar, effects. Such courses typically…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Software, Computers
Johnson, Barbara Z.; King, Elizabeth; Hayes, Elisabeth – Online Submission, 2008
In its second year, the Tech Savvy Girls Project adopted "Teen Second Life" as a platform for interest-driven learning and designed projects and objects around themes important to them and their futures as technology-using, creative people. By using the building tools in an open-ended virtual world, they were able to pursue interests common to…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Information Technology
Dixon, Ross – 1996
The specific characteristics of the World Wide Web mean that publishing documents using this medium has a number of unique requirements and presents a different challenge to anyone wishing to put documents on the Web. Key issues which have to be resolved include determining the nature of the documents to be published, identifying whether documents…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Authoring Aids (Programming), Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication
Voithofer, R. J. – 1996
Television programs are increasingly featuring information technologies like computers as significant narrative devices, including the use of computer-based technologies as virtual worlds or environments in which characters interact, the use of computers as tools in problem solving and confronting conflict, and characters that are part human, part…
Descriptors: Alienation, Characterization, Childhood Attitudes, Computers
