Storytelling alice motivates middle school girls to learn computer programming

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1455-1464

  Kelleher, Caitlin ^a   Pausch, Randy ^a   Kiesler, Sara ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; Children; Computer science education; Gender; Motivation; Programming; Programming environments

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; SPARK STORY IDEAS; STORYTELLING SUPPORT;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 35348903305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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