Robo-Blocks: Designing debugging abilities in a tangible programming system for early primary school children

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 98-105

  Sipitakiat, Arnan ^a   Nusen, Nusarin ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

children; debugging; learning; programming; tangible interface

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; COGNITIVE SKILL; DEBUGGING PROCESS; DEBUGGING TOOLS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; LEARNING; LOGICAL THINKING; PASSIVE OBJECTS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; PROGRAMMING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; TANGIBLE INTERFACES; YOUNG CHILDREN;

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84864298299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2307096.2307108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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