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Съвременни алтернативни подходи за преподаване на увод в програмирането
Contemporary Alternative Approaches to Teach Introductory Programming

Author(s): Ivaylo Donchev
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Preschool education, School education, Higher Education , Sociology of Education
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: introductory programming; teaching approaches; pedagogy.

Summary/Abstract: Construction of an introductory course in programming has always been difficult task, but new challenges have been added to the traditional ones, mostly related to the technology development, industry requirements and student motivation. So teachers and researchers are constantly looking for new pedagogical approaches to deal with this. Most of these approaches, however, solve only specific problems in a specific educational institution or program and are used only by their inventors. This article makes a critical analysis of seven selected contemporary alternative approaches to teaching introductory programming which have good chances to be imposed as a classical.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 111-126
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian