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ToonTalk(TM)--An Animated Programming Environment for Children.

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Kahn, Ken – 1995

This paper describes ToonTalk, a general-purpose concurrent programming system in which the source code is animated and the programming environment is a video game. The design objectives of ToonTalk were to create a self-teaching programming system for children that was also a very powerful and flexible programming tool. A keyboard can be used for…

Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Autoinstructional Aids, Children, Computer Games

Playing Teacher.

Gilbert, Juan E. – 2002

The acceptance of animation technologies is increasing. Video games, such as Sony PlayStation (SONY, 2002), have become part of the culture for young people from kindergarten through undergraduate school. Animation technologies have been implemented into educational systems in the form of animated pedagogical agents (Johnson, 2000). The research…

Descriptors: Animation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design