Teaching the Nintendo generation to program

M Guzdial, E Soloway - Communications of the ACM, 2002 - dl.acm.org
M Guzdial, E Soloway
Communications of the ACM, 2002dl.acm.org
Teaching the Nintendo generation to program Page 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM April
2002/Vol. 45, No. 4 17 While the phrase “new economy” doesn’t hold the same promise that it
did for the dot-commers a couple years ago, we all still recognize that information technology
has become the backbone of the world’s economy. The National Science Foundation’s
Information Technology Research program was developed in response to the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) [6] report which said as much. Even in the …
Preparing a new strategy for teaching introductory computer programming.
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