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Balancing teaching CS efficiently with motivating students

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Mark Guzdial suggests a new balance is needed in computer science education between discovery learning and direct instruction.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 6
      June 2017
      93 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3098997
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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