• DocumentCode
    2545990
  • Title

    Do it this way: equal opportunity programming for kids

  • Author

    Cockburn, Andy ; Bryant, Andrew

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    24-27 Nov 1996
  • Firstpage
    246
  • Lastpage
    251
  • Abstract
    End-user programming is becoming increasingly common-from setting the controls on a VCR to creating a home-finance spreadsheet. This paper describes Leogo, a novel user-interface that promotes programming skills in primary and junior schools. Users can express their programming tasks through any mixture of three concurrently active programming paradigms: by direct-manipulation using `programming by demonstration´; by clicking buttons and dragging sliders in an iconic language; and by typing commands in a normal text-based language. Leogo´s design, development and evaluation are described
  • Keywords
    LOGO; computer science education; graphical user interfaces; visual languages; visual programming; Leogo; VCR; buttons; direct-manipulation; end-user programming; equal opportunity programming; home-finance spreadsheet; iconic language; junior schools; primary schools; programming by demonstration; programming skills; sliders; text-based language; user-interface; Clocks; Computer languages; Computer science; Displays; Educational institutions; Home computing; Natural languages; Programming environments; Programming profession; Video recording;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer-Human Interaction, 1996. Proceedings., Sixth Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hamilton
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7525-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OZCHI.1996.560017
  • Filename
    560017