Computer science education based on fundamental ideas

We sketch a pedagogical 'theory' based on Bruner's educational psychology that might set computer science education for students and teachers on a well-founded basis and integrate different approaches to teach it, stress its long-lasting fundamentals and give a feeling of its essence. For it we (1) define the notion of fundamental ideas more precisely by several criteria, (2) present a collection of fundamental ideas of computer science, and (3) show how to develop a curriculum that centres around these ideas.