Designing mixed textual and iconic programming languages for novice users

Proceedings - 1998 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, VL 1998

Volumn 1998-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 187-194

  Rader, C ^a   Cherry, G ^a   Brand, C ^a   Repenning, A ^a   Lewis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; NOVICE USER; PROGRAMMING COMPONENTS; SOPHISTICATED PROJECTS; VISUAL ELEMENTS;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 84877050114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VL.1998.706162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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