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Peer reviewedResnick, Mitchel – Interactive Learning Environments, 1990
Discusses concurrent, or parallel, programming languages; explains the design of the MultiLogo programming language; and describes a study of fourth and fifth graders that used MultiLogo to control robotic devices built out of Lego bricks. Three categories of MultiLogo programming bugs are described, and implications for changes in design and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Patterns, Futures (of Society), Grade 4
Direct linkCumming, Geoff – Australian Educational Computing, 2005
In the first issue of "Australian Educational Computing," in 1986, Cumming and Abbott reported a controlled comparison of top-down and bottom-up teaching strategies for Grade 5 and 6 students' use of a simple logic programming language. They found that both strategies were rated highly by students and teachers, and gave useful learning;…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Learning Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Programming
