Tangible programming in the classroom with tern

Michael S. Horn; Robert J K Jacob

doi:10.1145/1240866.1240933

Tangible programming in the classroom with tern

Michael S. Horn^*, Robert J K Jacob

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Education and Social Policy

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86 Scopus citations

Abstract

This interactivity demonstrates Tern, a tangible programming language for middle school and late elementary school students. Tern consists of a collection of wooden blocks shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces. Children connect these blocks to form physical computer programs, which may include action commands, loops, branches, and subroutines. With Tern we attempt to provide the ability for teachers to conduct engaging programming activities in their classrooms, even if there are only one or two computers available. In designing Tern, we focused on creating an inexpensive, durable, and practical system for classroom use.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1965-1970
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	1595936424, 9781595936424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240933
State	Published - 2007
Event	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Apr 28 2007 → May 3 2007

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Other	25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	4/28/07 → 5/3/07

Keywords

Children
Education
Programming languages
Tangible UIs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Horn, MS & Jacob, RJK 2007, Tangible programming in the classroom with tern. in SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1965-1970, 25th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007, San Jose, CA, United States, 4/28/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1240933

Tangible programming in the classroom with tern. / Horn, Michael S.; Jacob, Robert J K.

SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007, CHI 2007 Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery, 2007. p. 1965-1970 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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