Graphic designers who program as informal computer science learners

ICER 2006 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 127-134

  Dorn, Brian ^a   Guzdial, Mark ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

End user programming; End user software engineering; Graphic design; Informal education

Indexed keywords

END-USER PROGRAMMING; END-USER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GRAPHIC DESIGNS; INFORMAL EDUCATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 34247397076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1151588.1151608     Document Type: Conference Paper

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