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FDG
2009
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Can middle-schoolers use Storytelling Alice to make games?: results of a pilot study
In this paper we share experiences from two 2-week summer courses for middle-school students in game programming using Storytelling Alice (SA). The students spent 20 hours learnin...
Linda L. Werner, Jill Denner, Michelle Bliesner, P...
ITICSE
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
High school computing clubs: a pilot study
While classes in IT skills are endemic, high school students in the UK rarely experience computer science. We present a pilot of a scheme that aims to go some way towards addressi...
Andrew Bennett, Joanna Briggs, Martyn Clark
JODL
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Nature: a prototype digital archive
In response to the proposal to digitise the journal Nature (1869->1992), published by Macmillan, a pilot project was commissioned to discover the technical issues and ascertain...
Ross MacIntyre, Simon Tanner
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
172views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn
CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
KidPad: A Design Collaboration Between Children, Technologists, and Educators
We established an interdisciplinary, intergenerational collaboration in the fall of 1995, between the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department, the College of E...
Allison Druin, Jason Stewart, David Proft, Benjami...