Children as unwitting end-user programmers

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 239-242

  Petre, Marian ^a   Blackwell, Alan F ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CRIME; LINGUISTICS; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

END-USER PROGRAMMINGS; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; SMALL GROUPS; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 47949114370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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