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Quote: children easily learn the primitives of a visual environment and then struggle to program with them in interesting and complex ways
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Topic:
primitive functions
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natural language
Topic:
children vs. adults
Topic:
direct engagement and theater in a user interface
Topic:
declarative vs. procedural representation
Topic:
sensitivity of software to change
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Once [2nd-5th graders] have learned a few program mechanics … [of KIDSIM] … easily learn the primitives of a visual environment … [Kahn, K. Sept. 1996]. … [p. 357] in a survey asking students what was … frequent response. We also observed that the student … was just too difficult to make changes. … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: 2nd-5th graders found it hardest to order KIDSIM's rules to get their models correct Quote: 2nd-5th graders felt it was too difficult to make changes to their KIDSIM science models
Topic: primitive functions (34 items)
Group: natural language (16 topics, 531 quotes)
Topic: children vs. adults (33 items)
Topic: direct engagement and theater in a user interface (35 items)
Topic: declarative vs. procedural representation (53 items)
Topic: sensitivity of software to change (44 items)