Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers

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IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007)

Coeur d?Al?ne, Idaho

September 23-September 27

ISBN: 0-7695-2987-9

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	Marian Petre, Alan F. Blackwell, "Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers," Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing, pp. 239-242, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007), 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/VLHCC.2007.52, author = {Marian Petre and Alan F. Blackwell}, title = {Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers}, journal ={Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing}, volume = {0}, year = {2007}, isbn = {0-7695-2987-9}, pages = {239-242}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.52}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing TI - Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers SN - 0-7695-2987-9 SP239 EP242 A1 - Marian Petre, A1 - Alan F. Blackwell, PY - 2007 KW - null VL - 0 JA - Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing ER -

Marian Petre, Open University, UK

Alan F. Blackwell, Cambridge University, UK

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2007.52

Children who are active on the internet are performing significant design and programming activity without realising it, in the course of hacking little animations, game scripts and so on. What does such effortless learning suggest about how to support end-user programming? This paper presents observations of ?unwitting? design and programming activity by a small group of teenagers, aged 12-17. It analyses their adoption and appropriation of technology, and discusses how such practices are embedded in social networks.

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Marian Petre, Alan F. Blackwell, "Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers," vlhcc, pp.239-242, IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007), 2007

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