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USING STORYTELLING TO MOTIVATE PROGRAMMING.

The article discusses the use of storytelling to motivate the study of computer programming. The authors examine the inclusion of the Storytelling Alice programming environment, which allows users to create computer-animated movies, as a motivational tool for middle school girls. Programs like Story...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 7; pp. 58 - 65
Autores principales: Kelleher, Caitlin, Pausch, Randy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2007
Materias:
Computer science
Students
Computer programming
Computer training
Programming languages
Elementary schools
United States
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Sumario:The article discusses the use of storytelling to motivate the study of computer programming. The authors examine the inclusion of the Storytelling Alice programming environment, which allows users to create computer-animated movies, as a motivational tool for middle school girls. Programs like Storytelling Alice are especially important in the 2000s, as student interest in computer science is falling in the United States, largely because students believe that the subject is boring from as early as grade school.