Scaffolding children?s robot building and programming activities

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3020, Issue , 2004, Pages 308-319

  Wyeth, Peta ^a   Venz, Mark ^a   Wyeth, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SCAFFOLDS; SPORTS;

GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS; PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES; PROGRAMMING KNOWLEDGE; ROBOCUPJUNIOR; ROBOTICS WORKSHOPS; UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84878578145     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25940-4_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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