Toque: Designing a cooking-based programming language for and with children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2417-2426

  Tarkan, Sureyya ^a,b   Sazawal, Vibha ^a,b   Druin, Allison ^a,b   Golub, Evan ^a,b   Bonsignore, Elizabeth M ^b   Walsh, Greg ^b   Atrash, Zeina ^c  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; design; education; programming languages; tangible uis

Indexed keywords

DESIGN EDUCATION; DESIGN EXPERIENCE; DESIGN TEAM; GRADUATE STUDENTS; INPUT DEVICES; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PHYSICAL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAMMING LEARNING; REAL-WORLD; SYSTEM DESIGN;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DESIGN; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

PARALLEL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77954018437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753692     Document Type: Conference Paper

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