Programming in K–12 Science Classrooms.

The article looks at how how introducing K-12 students to visual computer programming can led to greater interest and success in text-based programming. Details are provided on teachers using the agent-based visual programming language and modeling platform ViMAP in the classroom. Information is als...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 11; pp. 33 - 36
Autores principales:	Sengupta, Pratim, Dickes, Amanda, Voss Farris, Amy, Karan, Ashlyn, Martin, David, Wright, Mason
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Nov2015
Materias:	Visual programming (Computer science) Computer programming education Teaching methods Programming languages Curriculum planning
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Sumario:	The article looks at how how introducing K-12 students to visual computer programming can led to greater interest and success in text-based programming. Details are provided on teachers using the agent-based visual programming language and modeling platform ViMAP in the classroom. Information is also provided on how teachers integrated programming into curricula.