Lowering the barriers to programming
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- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
- Vol. 37 (2) , 83-137
- https://doi.org/10.1145/1089733.1089734
Abstract
Since the early 1960's, researchers have built a number of programming languages and environments with the intention of making programming accessible to a larger number of people. This article presents a taxonomy of languages and environments designed to make programming more accessible to novice programmers of all ages. The systems are organized by their primary goal, either to teach programming or to use programming to empower their users, and then, by each system's authors' approach, to making learning to program easier for novice programmers. The article explains all categories in the taxonomy, provides a brief description of the systems in each category, and suggests some avenues for future work in novice programming environments and languages.Keywords
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