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Teaching computational thinking through musical live coding in scratch

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Jesse M. Heines,

Gena R. Greher,

Charles Saulters, IIAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 351 - 355

https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734384

Published: 10 March 2010 Publication History

Abstract

This paper discusses our ongoing experiences in developing an interdisciplinary general education course called Sound Thinking that is offered jointly by our Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Music. It focuses on the student outcomes we are trying to achieve and the projects we are using to help students realize those outcomes. It explains why we are moving from a web-based environment using HTML and JavaScript to Scratch and discusses the potential for Scratch's "musical live coding" capability to reinforce those concepts even more strongly.

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Teaching computational thinking through musical live coding in scratch
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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