Teaching the Nintendo generation to program

Authors:
Mark Guzdial;Elliot Soloway
Affiliations:
Georgia Institute of Technology;University of Michigan
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Preparing a new strategy for teaching introductory computer programming.