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Overview of the Discipline of Computer Science,lum topics. The importance of these topics is explained by the fact that scholars in the field hold different views with respect to its scope; accordingly, different perspectives at the field can be highlighted in the MTCS course as well as in the future teaching of the students, who study the MTCS

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Computational Thinking,liar with computational thinking to build their own conception of its essence and central ideas for two main reasons: First, computational thinking is connected to computerized processes (but not only); second, computer science teachers have a special role in the implementation of computational thin

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Computer Science Soft Concepts and Soft Skills, are dominant in the teaching of computer science in schools and the academia, as well as influence software development processes in the industry. These facts require from computer science students and teachers, computer scientists, and software engineers to acquire, in addition to disciplinary and

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Data Science and Computer Science Education,an emerging discipline that computer science is one of its basic components and, accordingly, the two fields have some overlaps. In this chapter we take into consideration the fact that not all the students, who study the MTCS course, are familiar with data science, and, therefore, unlike other chap

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Problem-Solving Strategies,ontexts. Specifically, it is one of the central activities performed by computer scientists as well as by computer science learners. However, it is not a uniform or linear process that can be taught as an algorithm to be followed, and the understanding of this individual process is not always clear.

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,Learners’ Alternative Conceptions,lar, face difficulties in gaining the notion of alternative conceptions, it is important to address this issue in the MTCS course and to highlight the message that a learning opportunity exists in each pupils’ mistake (or misunderstanding). The chapter includes several pedagogical tools for exposing

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Teaching Methods in Computer Science Education,is first, to let the students in the MTCS course . a variety of teaching methods before becoming computer science teachers; second, to discuss, together with the students, the advantages and disadvantages of these teaching methods; and third, to demonstrate high school teaching situations in which i