Introducing computer science to high school students through logic programming

DOI10.1017/S1471068418000431MaRDI QIDQ5197750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Timothy T. Yuen, Maritza Reyes, Yuanlin Zhang

Publication date 19 September 2019

Published in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03274

zbMATH Keywords

answer set programmingdeclarative programminglogic programmingcomputer science educationhigh-school computer science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logic programming (68N17) Programming techniques (educational aspects) (97P50) Theoretical computer science (educational aspects) (97P20)

Abstract: This paper investigates how high school students in an introductory computer science course approach computing in the Logic Programming (LP) paradigm. This qualitative study shows how novice students operate within the LP paradigm while engaging in foundational computing concepts and skills: students are engaged in a cyclical process of abstraction, reasoning, and creating representations of their ideas in code while also being informed by the (procedural) requirements and the revision/debugging process. As these computing concepts and skills are also expected in traditional approaches to introductory K-12 CS courses, this paper asserts that LP is a viable paradigm choice for high school novices. This paper is under consideration in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2088272
• Computational Thinking and Expository Writing in the Middle School
• Keeping logic in the trivium of computer science: a teaching perspective
• Programming by numbers: A programming method for novices
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4106296

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5914356 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1971503 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 788036 (Why is no real title available?)
• Towards answer set programming with sorts

Cited in

(1)

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2088272 (Why is no real title available?)

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• Scratch
• Alice
• Potassco
• ASPIDE
• DLV

This page was built for publication: Introducing computer science to high school students through logic programming

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5197750)