"543","What We've Swept Under the Rug: Radically Rethinking CS1","Introductory computer science education is entrenched in an outdated computational model. Although it corresponds neither to our computing environments nor our work, we teach our students a single-thread-of-control static problem-solving view of the role of the computer program: computation as calculation. In this model, the job of a computer program is to start with a problem, calculate its answer, return that answer, and stop. This program-as-an-island bears little resemblance to most of today's software. We can dramatically improve this situation--and, as a corollary, all of undergraduate computer science--by teaching our students from the very beginning to conceptualize computation with a model of computer programs as simultaneous ongoing entities embedded in and interacting with a dynamic environment: computation as interaction; computation as it occurs in spreadsheets and video games, web applications and robots.","http://cogprints.org/543/","Stein, Lynn Andrea","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Stein, Lynn Andrea</span>     (1998)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/543/\"><em>What We've Swept Under the Rug: Radically Rethinking CS1.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","1998"