Computer Science Education Based on Fun- damental Ideas
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We sketch a pedagogical ‚theory‘ based on Bruner’s educational psychology that might set computer science education for students and teachers on a well-founded basis and integrate different approaches to teach it, stress its long-lasting fundamentals and give a feeling of its essence. For it we (1) define the notion of fundamental ideas more precisely by several criteria, (2) present a collection of fundamental ideas of computer science, and (3) show how to develop a curriculum that centers around these ideas.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998