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Young Children and Turtle Graphics Programming: Generating and Debugging Simple Turtle Programs.
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Cuneo, Diane O. – 1986
Turtle graphics is a popular vehicle for introducing children to computer programming. Children combine simple graphic commands to get a display screen cursor (called a turtle) to draw designs on the screen. The purpose of this study was to examine young children's abilities to function in a simple computer programming environment. Four- and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Science, Computer Uses in Education