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A Case Study of Physical Computing in Computer Science Education

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Michael Brinkmeier,

Daniel KalbreyerAuthors Info & Claims

WiPSCE '16: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education

Pages 54 - 59

https://doi.org/10.1145/2978249.2978256

Published: 13 October 2016 Publication History

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Industry 3.0 and 4.0 are catchphrases describing the increasing integration of software and physical computing into industrial facilities and processes. One of its consequences is the fact, that general and vocational education are faced with the challenge of integrating these aspects into the curriculum. In this paper such a teaching sequence is described and evaluated. It is based on a technical, low cost model of an industrial facility consisting of two components, each controlled by one Arduino. Both can be built and programmed independently using the graphical programming language abbozza!. The observations made during the conduction of the sequence in a german vocational grammar school are described, discussed and evaluated.

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Vahrenhold JCutts QFalkner K(2019)Schools (K–12)The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research10.1017/9781108654555.019(547-583)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2019
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