Title :
Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers
Author :
Petre, Marian ; Blackwell, Alan F.
Author_Institution :
Open Univ., Milton Keynes
Abstract :
Children who are active on the Internet are performing significant design and programming activity without realising it, in the course of hacking little animations, game scripts and so on. What does such effortless learning suggest about how to support end-user programming? This paper presents observations of ´unwitting´ design and programming activity by a small group of teenagers, aged 12-17. It analyses their adoption and appropriation of technology, and discusses how such practices are embedded in social networks.
Keywords :
Internet; user interfaces; Internet; social networks; unwitting end-user programmers; Aging; Animation; Appropriate technology; Computer crime; Computer hacking; Educational institutions; Internet; Laboratories; Programming profession; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2007. VL/HCC 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Coeur d´Alene, ID
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2987-5
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2007.52
