Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 83-137

  Kelleher, Caitlin ^a,b   Pausch, Randy ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Science education; Human computer interaction; Learning; Literacy; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; LEARNING; LITERACY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 27344439256     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 03600300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1089733.1089734     Document Type: Review

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