From turtles to Tangible Programming Bricks: Explorations in physical language design

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 326-337

  McNerney, Timothy S ^a  

^a ChipWrights Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Construction toys; Education; Hands on learning; History of computing; Microworlds; Programming languages; Tangible user interfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EDUCATION; RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES;

CHILDREN; HANDS-ON LEARNING; HISTORY OF COMPUTING; MICROWORLDS; TANGIBLE USER INTERFACES;

BRICK;

EID: 84900561062     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0295-6     Document Type: Article

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