Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories

by: C Kelleher, R Pausch

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on (2006), pp. 165-172.

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Abstract

Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a means to the end of storytelling will help motivate girls to learn to program, a traditional gateway to computer science. In this paper, we present a case study in designing a version of the Alice programming system to support storytelling. We present lessons we learned about what supports are necessary to enable girls to program animated movies and describe the kinds of programming tasks that arise in girls’ stories.

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TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1031679 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1031679 TI - Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories JF - Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on SP - 165 EP - 172 N2 - Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a means to the end of storytelling will help motivate girls to learn to program, a traditional gateway to computer science. In this paper, we present a case study in designing a version of the Alice programming system to support storytelling. We present lessons we learned about what supports are necessary to enable girls to program animated movies and describe the kinds of programming tasks that arise in girls stories. KW - education KW - storytelling AU - Kelleher, C AU - Pausch, R PY - 2006/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1698780 ER -

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