Despertando o interesse pela ciência da computação: Práticas na educação básica

Abstract

Nowadays, society has increasingly required many knowledge and skills. The Computational Thinking is one of them. It is the foundation of Computer Science, and may also be applied to other sciences, in order to systematize or organize the solutions to many problems. Thus, becomes necessary, so that future sociologists, economists, musicians, among others, to interact with computer professionals in an interdisciplinary way. So, this article reports the experience lived by students Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pernambuco, in their supervised internships with students of Basic Education in Brazil. The practice adopted made use of visual programming environment Scratch, developed by MIT, stimulating creativity and arousing interest of students for the area of Computing as a way of spread of algorithmic thinking.

Index Terms - Computing education, basic education, Scratch.