AgentCubes: Incremental 3D end-user development

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 236-251

  Ioannidou, Andri ^a   Repenning, Alexander ^a,b   Webb, David C ^b  

^a AGENTSHEETS INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational thinking; End user development; Game design; Incremental 3D; IT fluency; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649632035     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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