Rethinking children's programming with contextual signs

Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 121-128

  Fernaeus, Ylva ^a   Kindborg, Mikael ^b   Scholz, Robert ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Comics; Semiotics; Tangible programming; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEMIOTICS; USER INTERFACES;

COMICS; DYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34247337274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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