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A Computer Game To Teach Programming.
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Kahn, Ken – 1999
ToonTalk is an animated interactive world inside of which one can construct a very large range of computer programs. These programs are not constructed by typing text or arranging icons, but by taking actions in this world. Robots can be trained, birds can be given messages to deliver, and so on. This paper describes the design and preliminary…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Children, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games