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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Roland T. Mittermeir (Ed.)

From Computer Literacy to Informatics Fundamentals International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools – Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2005 Klagenfurt, Austria, March 30 - April 1, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editor Roland T. Mittermeir Universität Klagenfurt Institut für Informatik-Systeme Universitätsstr. 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria E-mail: roland@ifi.uni-klu.ac.at

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Preface

Twenty years ago, informatics was introduced as a compulsory subject in Austrian secondary schools. During this period informatics has experienced drastic evolutions and even some shifts of paradigms. This applies to an even larger extent to the didactics of informatics. ISSEP - Informatics in Secondary Schools, Evolution and Perspectives - takes stock of how the developments in the field are reflected in school throughout Europe. Teachers of informatics at secondary schools as well as educators of such teachers propose innovative methods of instruction, discuss the scope of overall informatics instruction, and discuss how innovative concepts can be disseminated to students in education as well as to active informatics teachers. Due to the penetration of information