Learning to program and learning to think: What's the connection?

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Focusing on thinking skills that are cognitive components of programming—rather than on intellectual ability—can illuminate the relationship between learning a programming language and learning more about thinking processes. © 1986, ACM. All rights reserved.

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Mayer, R. E., Dyck, J. L., & Vilberg, W. (1986). Learning to program and learning to think: What’s the connection? Communications of the ACM, 29(7), 605–610. https://doi.org/10.1145/6138.6142

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