Scratching middle schoolers' creative itch

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 356-360

  Adams, Joel C ^a  

^a CALVIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D animation; Alice; Computer science; Games; Gender; Middle school; Music; Programming; Scratch; Summer camps; Videos

Indexed keywords

2-D ANIMATION; BASIC IDEA; GAMES; MIDDLE SCHOOL; OBJECT BASED; SUMMER CAMP;

ANIMATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77952162006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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