DocumentCode
1803612
Title
Children as Unwitting End-User Programmers
Author
Petre, Marian ; Blackwell, Alan F.
Author_Institution
Open Univ., Milton Keynes
fYear
2007
fDate
23-27 Sept. 2007
Firstpage
239
Lastpage
242
Abstract
Children who are active on the Internet are performing significant design and programming activity without realising it, in the course of hacking little animations, game scripts and so on. What does such effortless learning suggest about how to support end-user programming? This paper presents observations of ´unwitting´ design and programming activity by a small group of teenagers, aged 12-17. It analyses their adoption and appropriation of technology, and discusses how such practices are embedded in social networks.
Keywords
Internet; user interfaces; Internet; social networks; unwitting end-user programmers; Aging; Animation; Appropriate technology; Computer crime; Computer hacking; Educational institutions; Internet; Laboratories; Programming profession; Social network services;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2007. VL/HCC 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location
Coeur d´Alene, ID
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-2987-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VLHCC.2007.52
Filename
4351354
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