How preschool children used a behaviour-based programming tool

Proceedings of the 6th international Conference on Interaction Design And Children, IDC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 149-152

  Kindborg, Mikael ^a   Sökjer, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour based programming; Contextual signs; Preschool children; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUAL SERVOING;

BEHAVIOUR-BASED PROGRAMMING; CONTEXTUAL SIGNS; PRESCHOOL CHILDREN; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 41149088363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297277.1297308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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