Can direct manipulation lower the barriers to programming and promote positive transfer to textual programming? An experimental study

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 157-164

  Hundhausen, Christopher D ^a   Farley, Sean ^a   Brown, Jonathan Lee ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MANIPULATION; DIRECT MANIPULATION INTERFACES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE; LEARNING GOALS; MODEL OF COMPUTATION; NOVICE PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMING INTERFACE; TEXTUAL LANGUAGE; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 57449118176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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