Blocks languages for creating tangible artifacts

Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 137-144

  Turbak, Franklyn ^a   Sandu, Smaranda ^a   Kotsopoulos, Olivia ^a   Erdman, Emily ^a   Davis, Erin ^a   Chadha, Karishma ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL THINKINGS; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; LASER CUTTERS; LOCAL VARIABLES; LOGO TURTLE; PICTURE LANGUAGES; STATIC TYPING;

DESIGN; GEOMETRY; LASERS;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84870902415     PISSN: 19436092     EISSN: 19436106     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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