Formative evaluation of a didactic software for acquiring problem solving abilities using prolog

Proceedings of IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 154-157

  Di Bitonto, Pierpaolo ^a   Roselli, Teresa ^a   Rossano, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Didactic software; Formative evaluation; User centred design

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; INFORMATICS; PILOT STUDIES; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; USER CENTRED DESIGN; USER PROBLEMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 70450260790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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