Abstract
Storytelling Alice and Looking Glass are programming environments that are designed to motivate middle school students, particularly girls, to learn basic computer programming. Rather than presenting programming as an end in and of itself, both systems present computer programming as a means to the end of creating animated stories. In this talk, I will share some lessons learned about how to support middle school students in finding and realizing their story ideas.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Kelleher, C., et al.: Alice2: Programming Without Syntax Errors. In: 15th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. ACM Press, New York (2002)
Kelleher, C., Pausch, R.: Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories. In: Grundy, J., And Howse, J. (eds.) 23rd IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp. 165–172. IEEE Press, New York (2006)
Kelleher, C., Pausch, R., Kiesler, S.: Storytelling Alice Motivates Middle School Girls to Learn Computer Programming. In: Begole, B., Payne, S., Churchill, E., St. Amant, R., Gilmore, D., Rosson, M.B. (eds.) 25th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1455–1464. ACM Press, New York (2007)
Scaffidi, C., Shaw, M., Myers, B.: Estimating the Numbers of End Users and End User Programmers. In: Erwig, M., Schurr, A. (eds.) 22nd IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, pp. 207–214. IEEE Press, New York (2005)
Vegso, J.: Enrollments and Degree Production at US CS Departments Drop Further in 2006/2007, http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=139
Vegso, J.: Taulbee Trends: Female Students & Faculty, http://www.cra.org/info/taulbee/women.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Kelleher, C. (2009). Supporting Storytelling in a Programming Environment for Middle School Children. In: Iurgel, I.A., Zagalo, N., Petta, P. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_1
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-10642-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-10643-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)