TEACHING ALGORITHMIC THINKING TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Algorithms are a central concept in computer science. Therefore, it is necessary that undergraduate students in computer science get deep knowledge in popular algorithms. Moreover, they have to get background knowledge about the underlying ideas and some important properties. Also, it is very important to get the ability to transfer and apply the knowledge to new problems. The sum of all these skills is called algorithmic resp. computational thinking. Lecturers apply different teaching methods to teach these skills. The paper describes the skills and some learning aims in detail and shows which skill can be reached by which learning method.