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The teaching of Computer programming is now mandated in UK state run primary and secondary schools  but few elementary teachers have any exposure to programming and are generally from backgrounds that  have not given them fluency in using such technology. This paper outlines an attempt to develop a training  scheme for trainee teachers that will introduce them to computational thinking through the use of the Flash  Action Script Development environment. It is believed that learning how to use this tool will provide them  with greater motivation to learn how to program as the scripts will be used to develop teaching instruments  that they might use in their classroom. The current paper reports progress on the development of a tool that  will allow the teaching of Flash Action Scripts and the testing of this approach on groups of trainee and  experienced teachers. It reports on an experiment and the relative level of enthusiasm, motivation and  attitude of the experienced teachers and the trainee teachers both before and after exposure to the pilot tool.  As expected the trainee teachers had a more positive attitude towards the potential of the learning tool but  both groups had improved attitude and enthusiasm after the experiment.

Learning Computational Thinking Through the Use of Flash Action Scripts - Preparing Trainee Elementary School Teachers for Teaching Computer Programming