Marco Sbaraglia
ABSTRACT
I plan to develop a theoretical model for teaching programming to novice learners to learn CS core concepts based on a progression of "notional machines" (NMs). The progression is driven by a CS-specific learning design: passages from a NM to the next must be designed to make students "feel the necessity" to learn what is new.
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