Teaching Algorithms to Develop the Algorithmic Thinking of Informatics Students

• Published in: Mathematics (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 20; p. 3857
• Main Authors: Gonda, Dalibor, Ďuriš, Viliam, Tirpáková, Anna, Pavlovičová, Gabriela
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Algorithms; backtracking; computational thinking; Decision making; Didacticism; Educational aspects; Graph theory; heuristics; Informatics; Information science; knight’s tour problem; Learning; learning algorithms; Mathematics; Modernization; Problem solving; Skills; Statistical analysis; Students; Study and teaching; Teaching; Thought and thinking; Slovakia

Modernization and the ever-increasing trend of introducing modern technologies into various areas of everyday life require school graduates with programming skills. The ability to program is closely related to computational thinking, which is based on algorithmic thinking. It is well known that algo...