Advice on teaching CS, and the learnability of programming languages

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Communications of the ACM Volume 58 Issue 3March 2015pp 8–9https://doi.org/10.1145/2716345

Published:23 February 2015Publication History

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Valerie Barr considers how attitude can impact teacher effectiveness, while Mark Guzdial suggests the ultimate focus in teaching programming languages should be on usability.

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Advice on teaching CS, and the learnability of programming languages
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
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Communications of the ACM Volume 58, Issue 3
March 2015
83 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2739250
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