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FunFonts: introducing $4^{th}$ and $5^{th}$ graders to programming using Squeak

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Jamba, Lisa A. Sánchez-Ruíz, Arturo J.
Abstract	This paper discusses a series of presentations and activities designed to enhance the computing skills of elementary school students and hence expose them to Information Technology-related careers. Goals of the sessions include increasing the students' formal understanding of the inner workings of a computer and increasing their set of abstract skills by adding computer programming to it. A cohort of students participated in these one-hour sessions on a weekly basis (except for holidays and special school activities) during their $4^{th}$ and $5^{th}$ grade years. Overall, the students enjoyed the computing projects, which were not part of their formal curriculum. At the completion of the first year of lessons, approximately 91% of the students were able to trace the execution of a simple imperative computer program. After the second year of lessons, approximately 91% of the students were able to successfully write programs using mathematical skills associated with points in a 2-dimensional coordinate system in Squeak. In terms of programming, they liked controlling the appearance and behavior of their robot in the BotsInc environment but disliked having to correct errors.
Starting Page	24
Ending Page	29
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605581057
DOI	10.1145/1593105.1593112
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-03-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Computer programming in k-12 Squeak Object-oriented programming
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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