A Programming System for Children that is Designed for Usability (2002)
| Venue: | In C. Kann (Ed.), Proceedings of the First ESP Student Workshop |
| Citations: | 30 - 1 self |
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@TECHREPORT{Pane02aprogramming,
author = {John F. Pane},
title = {A Programming System for Children that is Designed for Usability},
institution = {In C. Kann (Ed.), Proceedings of the First ESP Student Workshop},
year = {2002}
}
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Abstract
This paper proposes a new programming language and environment for children. This system will be designed to be easy to learn and use, without sacrificing the power necessary to create sophisticated programs that rival commercial software such as games and simulations. Throughout the design and refinement of this system, I will apply prior results from empirical studies of programmers and the psychology of programming, my own empirical studies about the ways that nonprogrammers naturally express solutions to programming tasks, and usability testing.
