Lessons learned from designing a programming system to support middle school girls creating animated stories

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 165-172

  Kelleher, Caitlin ^a   Pausch, Randy ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDDLE SCHOOL; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; PROGRAMMING TASKS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 35348881425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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