Teaching Programming Competencies: A Role for Craft Computing?

Tom Crick; James Davenport; Alan Hayes; Tom Prickett

doi:10.1145/3610969.3611140

Teaching Programming Competencies: A Role for Craft Computing?

Tom Crick^*, James Davenport^*, Alan Hayes^*, Tom Prickett^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer and Information Sciences

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Abstract

Competency-based education is the recommended paradigm of the ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) and the imminent Computer Science Curricula 2023 (CS2023) guidelines. Learners apply knowledge, dispositions and skills in a task context as an integral part of their studies is the competency model advocated. It would be highly unusual to deliver a computing-related degree programme without considering programming in some manner. However, competency in programming extends beyond simply writing code; indeed, teaching programming is more akin to teaching craft skills than a traditional academic discipline.

Original language	English
Pages	1
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611140
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 17 Jul 2023
Event	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference 2023 - Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom Duration: 7 Sep 2023 → 8 Sep 2023 https://www.ukicer.com/

Conference

Conference	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference 2023
Abbreviated title	UKICER'23
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Swansea
Period	7/09/23 → 8/09/23
Internet address	https://www.ukicer.com/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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