Teaching Fundamental Concepts of Informatics

1. Front Matter

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2. Sustaining Informatics Education by Contests

   • Valentina Dagienė

   Pages 1-12

3. Impasse, Conflict, and Learning of CS Notions

   • David Ginat

   Pages 13-21

4. K-12 Computer Science: Aspirations, Realities, and Challenges

   • Allen B. Tucker

   Pages 22-34

5. Perspective on Computer Science Education

   • Amiram Yehudai

   Pages 35-35

6. Didactics of Introduction to Computer Science in High School

   • Michal Armoni, Tamar Benaya, David Ginat, Ela Zur

   Pages 36-48

7. Software Design Course for Leading CS In-Service Teachers

   • Ofra Brandes, Tamar Vilner, Ela Zur

   Pages 49-60

8. The Effect of Tangible Artifacts, Gender and Subjective Technical Competence on Teaching Programming to Seventh Graders

   • Philipp Brauner, Thiemo Leonhardt, Martina Ziefle, Ulrik Schroeder

   Pages 61-71

9. The Difficulty of Programming Contests Increases

   • Michal Forišek

   Pages 72-85

10. Didactic Games for Teaching Information Theory

    • Michal Forišek, Monika Steinová

    Pages 86-99

11. Collaborative Initiatives for Promoting Computer Science in Secondary Schools

    • Irene Glendinning, Margaret Low

    Pages 100-111

12. Teaching Public-Key Cryptography in School

    • Lucia Keller, Dennis Komm, Giovanni Serafini, Andreas Sprock, Björn Steffen

    Pages 112-123

13. Towards a Methodical Approach for an Empirically Proofed Competency Model

    • Johannes Magenheim, Wolfgang Nelles, Thomas Rhode, Niclas Schaper

    Pages 124-135

14. Having Fun with Computer Programming and Games: Teacher and Student Experiences

    • Clare McInerney

    Pages 136-142

15. Showing Core-Concepts of Informatics to Kids and Their Teachers

    • Roland T. Mittermeir, Ernestine Bischof, Karin Hodnigg

    Pages 143-154

16. Object-Oriented Modeling of Object-Oriented Concepts

    • Michela Pedroni, Bertrand Meyer

    Pages 155-169

17. Programming Camps: Letting Children Discover the Computer Science

    • Monika Steinová, Juliana Šišková

    Pages 170-181

18. Mission to Mars – A Study on Naming and Referring

    • Michael Weigend

    Pages 182-193

19. Long-Term Development of Software Projects – Students’ Self-appreciation and Expectations

    • Cecile Yehezkel, Bruria Haberman

    Pages 194-205

20. Back Matter

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The International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools: Evolution and Perspective (ISSEP) is an emerging forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of computer science education with a focus on secondary schools. The ISSEP series started in 2005 in Klagenfurt, and continued in 2006 in Vilnius, and in 2008 in Torun. ´ The 4th ISSEP took part in Zurich. This volume presents 4 of the 5 invited talks and 14 regular contributions chosen from 32 submissions to ISSEP 2010. The ISSEP conference series is devoted to all aspects of computer science teaching. In the preface of the proceedings of ISSEP 2006, Roland Mittermeir wrote: “ISSEP aims at educating ‘informatics proper’ by showing the beauty of the discipline, hoping to create interest in a later professional career in c- puting, and it will give answers di?erent from the opinion of those who used to familiarize pupils with the basics of ICT in order to achieve computer lit- acy for the young generation. ” This is an important message at this time, when several countries have reduced teaching informatics to educating about current softwarepackagesthatchangefromyeartoyear. ThegoalofISSEPistosupport teaching of the basic concepts and methods of informatics, thereby making it a subject in secondary schools that is comparable in depth and requirements with mathematics or natural sciences. As we tried to present in our book “Algori- mic Adventures.

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• ETH Zürich, Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, CAB F 16, Universitätstrasse 6,, Zürich, Switzerland

  Juraj Hromkovič

• ETH Zürich, Informationstechnologie und Ausbildung, CAB F 13.1, Universitätstrasse 6,, Zürich, Switzerland

  Richard Královič

• Foundations of Computer Science and Computer Science Education Group, Chair of Algorithm Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science, Technische Universität Dortmund,, Dortmund, Germany

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