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A Study on the Effectiveness of Computational Thinking Ability on Software Development  

Park, Seongbean (성균관대학교 교과교육학과 컴퓨터교육전공)
Ahn, Seongjin (성균관대학교 교과교육학과)
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The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education / v.18, no.5, 2015 , pp. 45-54 More about this Journal
Abstract
There has been rising demand within the South Korean government and among various industries in recent years on the need for strengthening the competitiveness of the software industry, which they highlight as being a core element for national competitiveness. This strategy would require enhancing the job competency of software developers. This study's results show that computational thinking (CT), which is one of the more creative solutions to the problem, has a positive effect on the enhancement of software developers' job competency. Furthermore, the study finds that the software development tasks of simulation, algorithms and procedures, and parallelization (in that order) serve as influential elements for software developers, which differs from previous studies' findings. The South Korean government thus should emphasize education in these areas in order to enhance the nation's job competence. Because simulation, especially, has the greatest influence among these areas, there is a particular need to strengthen that area.
Keywords
Computational Thinking; Software developer; Job Competency; Simulation;
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