====== Week 11: Computational Thinking ======

===== Objectives =====


===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

  * Barr and Stephenson (2011). [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1929905&CFID=51904672&CFTOKEN=26381298|Bringing computational thinking to K-12: what is Involved and what is the role of the computer science education community?]]
  * Orr (2009). [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1598021&CFID=51904672&CFTOKEN=26381298|Computational thinking through programming and algorithmic art]]
  * Wing (2006). [[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1118215&CFID=51904672&CFTOKEN=26381298|Computational Thinking]] (reference)

===== Topics =====

  * Computational thinking in K-12

===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: Recursion
  * Using the Processing language
  * [[http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/CompThinking.html|CSTA Computational Thinking Resources]]