Beautiful and Usable

Sheehan, Robert; Sheehan, S

dc.contributor.author	Sheehan, Robert	en
dc.contributor.author	Sheehan, S	en
dc.coverage.spatial	Boston, United States	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-01-22T03:49:11Z	en
dc.date.issued	2015-06-21	en
dc.identifier.citation	IDC 2015 Workshop: Every Child a Coder? Research Challenges for a 5-18 Programming Curriculum, 2015	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/28082	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper is concerned with two of the workshop questions: what are the precursors to computer science skills and what are the relationships between programming and computational thinking? Firstly, we suggest that a precursor of programming is the appreciation of beauty and elegance. Secondly, even though there is a strong feeling among computer scientists that computer science is not programming we think that separating programming from computational thinking reduces computational thinking to a subset of problem solving and it loses its reason for being treated as an important component of education. Linking both of these questions is the problem of producing a programming environment for children which is both beautiful and usable.	en
dc.description.uri	http://everychildacoder.org.uk/papers/	en
dc.publisher	Tufts University	en
dc.relation.ispartof	ACM SIGCHI Interaction Design and Children 2015	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	IDC 2015 Workshop: Every Child a Coder? Research Challenges for a 5-18 Programming Curriculum	en
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dc.title	Beautiful and Usable	en
dc.type	Conference Item	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: Tufts University	en
pubs.author-url	http://everychildacoder.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sheehan_Sheehan_final.pdf	en
pubs.finish-date	2015-06-24	en
pubs.start-date	2015-06-21	en
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pubs.subtype	Other	en
pubs.elements-id	516835	en
pubs.org-id	Science	en
pubs.org-id	School of Computer Science	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2016-01-14	en