Children's perception of computer programming as an aid to designing programming environments

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 75-83

  Sheehan, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Children; Computer programming; Computing environments

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; AUDIO EFFECTS; CHILDREN; COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84961883229     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/953536.953548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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