Towards a specification of the ToonTalk language

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 574-597

  Morgado, Leonel ^a   Kahn, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b Animated Programs   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action based programming; Animated programming; Children programming; Concurrent programming; ToonTalk; Virtual environment; Virtual environments; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249086296     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.10.002     Document Type: Article

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