'Scratch' your way to introductory CS

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 298-299

  Wolz, Ursula ^a   Maloney, John ^b   Pulimood, Sarah Monisha ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creative problem solving; Introductory programming; Novice programming environments; Scratch; Social networks

Indexed keywords

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING; INTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING; NOVICE PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; SCRATCH; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 57449105892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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