Learning programming through fashion and design: A pilot summer course in wearable computing for middle school students

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 504-508

  Lau, Winnie W Y ^a   Ngai, Grace ^a   Chan, Stephen C F ^a   Cheung, Joey C Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Gender diversity; Outreach education; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY; EARLY AGE; ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE; GAME DESIGN; GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING; IN-LINE; LEARN TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING PROGRAMMING; LEARNING TOOL; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS; PROGRAMMING COURSE; SUMMER CAMP; TEACHING PROGRAMMING; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

ANIMATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77956192529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1509041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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