AgentCubes: Raising the Ceiling of End-User Development in Education through Incremental 3D

Author

Repenning, Alexander ; Ioannidou, Andri

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO

fYear

2006

fDate

4-8 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

34

Abstract

Now that we have end-user programming environments capable of empowering kids with no programming background to build games in a matter of hours, a new quest for raising the ceiling of end-user development is emerging. Environments not only focusing on programming, but also including rich media such as 3D, could work as compelling tools for introducing information technology at the K-12 level. The new challenge is raising the ceiling without raising the threshold. Based on our experience with AgentSheets, a tool used worldwide for computational science and game design applications, we created a new authoring tool called AgentCubes. This article discusses the notion of incremental 3D as a design approach for media-rich end-user development with low threshold and high ceiling in education

Keywords

authoring systems; computer aided instruction; computer science education; programming; programming environments; AgentCubes authoring tool; education; end-user programming; incremental 3D; media-rich end-user development; Computational modeling; Computer languages; Computer science; Computer science education; Computer vision; Educational programs; Information technology; Instruments; Programming environments; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2006. VL/HCC 2006. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Brighton

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2586-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2006.7

Filename

1698758