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“Programming is hard and boring”
“programming is hard and boring”
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affective
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affective
easy
hard
boring exciting
Holy Grail
where we want to be
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affective
easy
hard
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where we were
compute prime numbers
C++, Emacs
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making programming easier
Syntactic Support
Mission Accomplishednot quite
1995:
AgentSheets pioneers drag and drop programming
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making programming easier
Syntactic Support
Semantic Support
Pre-bugging
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making programming exciting
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Ownership &
Creativity
Creativity3D Tools
<inflatable icons movie: 15 seconds>
create exciting worlds
<screen dump>
does it work?
> 10,000 students
45% girls 55% boys
74% boys, 64% girls of
non self-selected students want to continue
some middle schools expose
350 students
per year
results Pedagogy
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• http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu
• http://hourofcode.com/ac
• WIRED article on programming, October issue
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