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Growing up programming: democratizing the creation of dynamic, interactive media

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Boston, MA, USA

PANEL SESSION: Panels table of contents

Pages 3293-3296

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-247-4

Authors

Mitchel Resnick	MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Mary Flanagan	Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Caitlin Kelleher	Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA
Matthew MacLaurin	Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Yoshiki Ohshima	Viewpoints Research Institute, Glendale, CA, USA
Ken Perlin	New York University, New York, NY, USA
Robert Torres	New York University, New York, NY, USA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

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 languages are too difficult to learn and understand. This panel brings together a group of researchers, developers, and educators who are aiming to democratize the activity of programming. They are developing a new generation of programming environments that enable children and teens to create their own interactive games, stories, animations, and simulations. Panelists will discuss and critique their programming environments, then set up interactive demonstration stations for focused exploration and small-group discussion. Audience members will also have the opportunity to download the environments onto their own laptops, so that they can experiment in greater depth.

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Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education