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2006
IEEE
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Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch
VL
2006
IEEE
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A Lightweight Model for End Users' Domain-Specific Data
Many end user programming tools lack adequate support for domain-specific data. We will design a lightweight representation for categories of data, called “topes,” and develop...
Christopher Scaffidi
VL
2003
IEEE
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15 years 8 months ago
Preserving non-programmers' motivation with error-prevention and debugging support tools
A significant challenge in teaching programming to disadvantaged populations is preserving learners’ motivation and confidence. Because programming requires such a diverse set o...
Andrew Jensen Ko
VL
2003
IEEE
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Integrating software engineering and user-centred design for multimedia software developments
The object-oriented modeling of interactive multimedia applications in the OMMMA approach is designed to enable multimedia software developers to create comprehensive analysis and...
Gregor Engels, Stefan Sauer, Bettina Neu
VL
2003
IEEE
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Programming for communication: overcoming motivational barriers to computation for all
Computer science as a discipline is failing to reach a diverse audience. As a result, computational illiteracy threatens many groups of underserved students—women, minorities an...
Andrea Forte