Cupcake cushions, scooby doo shirts, and soft boomboxes: E-textiles in high school to promote computational concepts, practices, and perceptions

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 311-316

  Kafai, Yasmin ^a   Searle, Kristin ^a   Kaplan, Eliot ^b   Fields, Deborah ^c   Lee, Eunkyoung ^a   Lui, Debora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Westminster College   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Electronic textiles; K 12

Indexed keywords

BROADENING PARTICIPATION; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DESIGN APPROACHES; ELECTRONIC TEXTILES; INTRODUCTORY COURSE; K-12; PROGRAM CODE; STUDENT POPULATIONS;

CURRICULA; EDUCATION; TEXTILES;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 84876263653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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