Simple tangible language elements for young children

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Cyrus Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIR Meraka Institute, Pretoria, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose simple tangible language elements for very young children to use when constructing programmes. The equivalent Turtle Talk instructions are given for comparison. Two examples of the tangible language code are shown to illustrate alternative methods of solving a given challenge.