A High School Program in Computer Science
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The authors are part of a committee that has been designing a new high-school curriculum in computer science and supervising the preparation of a comprehensive study program based on it. The new program emphasizes the foundations of algorithmic thinking, and teaches programming as a way to get the computer to carry out an algorithm. The paper discusses the program and its initial implementation.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Computer
دوره 28 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995