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Statter, David; Armoni, Michal – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
Abstraction is one of the most fundamental ideas in computer science (CS), and as such, according to Bruner, it should be taught spirally, starting as early as possible and revisited at every level of education. However, teaching CS abstraction to novices is a very challenging task, and CS educational research has often demonstrated students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Computer Science Education, Abstract Reasoning
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Magerko, Brian; Freeman, Jason; McKlin, Tom; Reilly, Mike; Livingston, Elise; McCoid, Scott; Crews-Brown, Andrea – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
This article presents EarSketch, a learning environment that combines computer programming with sample-based music production to create a computational remixing environment for learning introductory computing concepts. EarSketch has been employed in both formal and informal settings, yielding significant positive results in student content…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Computer Science Education, Disproportionate Representation
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Kolling, Michael – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
Greenfoot is an educational integrated development environment aimed at learning and teaching programming. It is aimed at a target audience of students from about 14 years old upwards, and is also suitable for college- and university-level education. Greenfoot combines graphical, interactive output with programming in Java, a standard, text-based…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages