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From 'Must' and 'Unsuitable' to Design Guidelines in Computing Education
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/0298/021909_Guzdial_Mark_250.large.jpg?1301318824&1301318823 "Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Mark Guzdial")
Rhetoric in education tends to be politicized and polarized, and computing education is no different. Research in computing education might learn from design-based research efforts from general education research, that emphasizes developing design guidelines.
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(1)I would like to correct a point I made erroneously in the above: CMU is *not* using robots in their introductory course with Python. The quotes do seem to be correct, and I stand by my claim that we need to improve our rhetoric and explore a wide range of perspectives.
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