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Learning to program = learning to construct mechanisms and explanations
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Teaching effective problem-solving skills in the context of teaching programming necessitates a revised curriculum for introductory computer programming courses.
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- Authors
- Soloway, E.
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 1986-09
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 850-858
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2138432297
- Cited by
- 567
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 36.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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