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Judith Galezer; Smadar Szekely – Informatics in Education, 2024
Spark, one of the products offered by MyQ (formerly Plethora), is a game-based platform meticulously designed to introduce students to the foundational concepts of computer science. By navigating through logical challenges, users delve into topics like abstraction, loops, and graph patterns. Setting itself apart from its counterparts, Spark boasts…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Game Based Learning, Computer Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Fowler, Megan; Hallstrom, Jason; Hollingsworth, Joseph; Kraemer, Eileen; Sitaraman, Murali; Sun, Yu-Shan; Wang, Jiadi; Washington, Gloria – Informatics in Education, 2021
Computer science students often evaluate the behavior of the code they write by running it on specific inputs and studying the outputs, and then apply their comprehension to a more general understanding of the code. While this is a good starting point in the student's career, successful graduates must be able to reason analytically about the code…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Coding, Computer Software, Abstract Reasoning