Learning to program = learning to construct mechanisms and explanations

Authors:
E. Soloway
Affiliations:
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1986

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Abstract

Teaching effective problem-solving skills in the context of teaching programming necessitates a revised curriculum for introductory computer programming courses.