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Introducing CS to Newcomers, and JES As a Teaching Tool.

The article discusses teaching computer science to Science and Technology Entry Program students at Union College's Kenney Community Center and the benefits of Jython Environment for Students, the text editing software for Python programming language. Topics include the use of a visual perception ca...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 11; pp. 10 - 12
Main Authors: Barr, Valerie, Guzdial, Mark
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2016
Subjects:
Computer science education
Jython (Computer program language)
Computer programming education
Computer logic
Problem solving methodology
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses teaching computer science to Science and Technology Entry Program students at Union College's Kenney Community Center and the benefits of Jython Environment for Students, the text editing software for Python programming language. Topics include the use of a visual perception card game to analyze how human's solve problems versus how to program computers to solve problems, data representation inside computers, and the use of JES to facilitate programming in Media Computation.