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We sketch a pedagogical ‘theory’ based on Bruner’s educational psychology that might set computer science education for students and teachers on a well-founded basis and integrate different approaches to teach it, stress its long-lasting fundamentals and give a feeling of its essence. For it we (1) define the notion of fundamental ideas more precisely by several criteria, (2) present a collection of fundamental ideas of computer science, and (3) show how to develop a curriculum that centres around these ideas.
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Schwill, A. (1997). Computer science education based on fundamental ideas. In: Passey, D., Samways, B. (eds) Information Technology. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35081-3_36
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