Computational thinking for beginners: A successful experience using prolog
Silvio Beux, Daniela Briola, Andrea Corradi, Giorgio Delzanno, Angelo Ferrando, Federico Frassetto, Giovanna Guerrini, Viviana Mascardi, Marco Oreggia, Francesca Pozzi, Alessandro Solimando, Armando Tacchella · BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca) · 2015
We discuss a logic-based methodology that we adopted to teach basic concepts of programming to high school students with a scientific profile and very basic knowledge of computer science. For our experiments we combined lectures on inductive reasoning with Prolog, practice on natural language processing and ontologies, and evaluations based on questionnaires before and after the workshop