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Innovative Pedagogical Practices in the Craft of Computing

James H. Davenport, Alan Hayes, Rachid Hourizi, Tom Crick Orcid Logo

Pages: 115 - 119

Swansea University Author: Tom Crick Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.1109/LaTiCE.2016.38

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Teaching programming is much more like teaching a craft skill than it is a purely theoretical subject. Hence an "apprenticeship" model, where apprentices learn by watching the master do, and then do themselves, and are criticised in their doing, is, we claim, more appropriate than the &quo...

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Published: Mumbai, India IEEE 2016
Online Access: http://www.et.iitb.ac.in/latice2016/
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