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Since its introduction by Papert and its application to the educational field by Wing, computational thinking has been experiencing a growing development in recent years in all levels of compulsory education and also in the unformal field. Undoubtedly, computational thinking helps individuals to better cope with learning challenges and even with everyday life challenges themselves; in addition, it is motivating for young people, and because of that, it is frequent offered as a common activity outside school or inside the curriculum. In Catalonia, different governmental initiatives consider the inclusion of programming and robotics in the ordinary classroom as a result of that; in fact, it is considered positive to generalize the computational thinking in the compulsory education system, because of its many possibilities and its many potentialities. However, nowadays the Faculties of Education do not form teachers prepared …