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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Utilizing multimedia capabilities of mobile phones to support teaching in schools in rural panama
Providing good education is one of the major challenges for humanity. In many developing regions in the world improving educational standards is seen as a central building block f...
Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamóndez, Chri...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Growing up programming: democratizing the creation of dynamic, interactive media
Young people interact with games, animations, and simulations all of the time. But few of them are able to create interactive media. The obstacle: traditional programming language...
Mitchel Resnick, Mary Flanagan, Caitlin Kelleher, ...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Designing a scripting language to help the blind program visually
The vast proliferation of GUI-based applications, including graphical interactive development environments (IDEs), has placed blind programmers at a severe disadvantage in a profe...
Kenneth G. Franqueiro, Robert M. Siegfried
ITICSE
2003
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Using lab exams to ensure programming practice in an introductory programming course
The high variability of students’ backgrounds typically found in introductory programming courses creates additional difficulties to foster motivation and ensure the desired co...
João Paulo Barros, Luís Estevens, Ru...
ITICSE
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
The SOM family: virtual machines for teaching and research
This paper introduces the SOM (Simple Object Machine) family of virtual machine (VM) implementations, a collection of VMs for the same Smalltalk dialect addressing students at di...
Michael Haupt, Robert Hirschfeld, Tobias Pape, Gre...