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This paper reports on the main results obtained by an Austrian initiative attempting to broaden the pupils’ view on Computer Science / Informatics and to create interest in the subject. Pupils from primary school up to upper secondary school obtained lectures by university teachers spread over a period of one and a half year. This paper presents one of the lectures and reports the results obtained in primary schools compared with results from other grades.
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Bischof, E., Sabitzer, B. (2011). Computer Science in Primary Schools – Not Possible, But Necessary?!. In: Kalaš, I., Mittermeir, R.T. (eds) Informatics in Schools. Contributing to 21st Century Education. ISSEP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24722-4_9
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