Programming by choice: Urban youth learning programming with scratch

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 367-371

  Maloney, John ^a   Peppier, Kylie ^b   Kafai, Yasmin B ^b   Resnick, Mitchel ^a   Rusk, Natalie ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Novice programming environments; Scratch; Wider access

Indexed keywords

LEARNING PROGRAMMINGS; NOVICE PROGRAMMERS; NOVICE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SCRATCH; URBAN YOUTHS; WIDER-ACCESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 57449094589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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