TANKS: A Tangible Programming Tool to Introduce Children to Coding Through Fun Problem Solving Activities

Batteson Byron (), Greyling Jean (), Busch Kim () and Jacobs Desme ()
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Batteson Byron: Nelson Mandela University
Greyling Jean: Nelson Mandela University
Busch Kim: RLabs
Jacobs Desme: RLabs

A chapter in Resilience, Entrepreneurship and ICT, 2021, pp 97-113 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A study of related work, pedagogical theories, and extant systems was performed to determine how to create a novel, inexpensive educational tool suite for programming. Previous systems were typically costly and linear in design. A tangible programming interface for mobile phones was developed. The tangibility is achieved using printable paper command tokens, which are placed in sequence to describe a program or sequence. A mobile phone is used to capture an image of the program and execute it in a game-like environment. The game was rolled out at five design thinking workshops in the Cape Town area, which this paper also reports on.

Keywords: Programming; Kids coding; Design thinking; Educational tools (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-78941-1_5

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