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A Computer Game to Teach Programming Introduction to ToonTalkPage 1 1A Computer Game to Teach Programming Ken Kahn Kahn@csli.stanford.edu Animated Programs 49 Fay Avenue San Carlos CA 94070 This paper will appear in the Proceedings of the National Educational Computing Conference 1999Keywords: learning computer programming interactive tutorials animated programmingABSTRACTToonTalk is an animated interactive world inside of which one can construct a verylarge range of computer programs. These programs are not constructed by typing text or arranging icons but by taking actions in this world. Robots can be trained birds can be given messages to deliver and so on. ToonTalk has been described at NECC95 Kah95]as well as Kah96a and Kah96b]. This paper describes the design and preliminary testing of an interactive puzzle gamethat functions as a ToonTalk tutorial. Children are presented with a series of interactive puzzles in a gamelike narrative context. The puzzles gradually introduce programmingconstructs and techniques. Each puzzle presents the player with a very limited selection ofToonTalk objects. Even some very young children are able to solve the puzzles because the search space is so strongly constrained. And yet players do not behave as if the puzzles are too easy the children are clearly challenged. The sequence of puzzles iscarefully designed to gradually introduce new concepts one at a time. Testing has shown that both children and adults enjoy the puzzles and have learned some sophisticated programming skills.Introduction to ToonTalkToonTalk is a programming language whose source code is animated. Kah95] (ToonTalk is so named because one is talking in (car)toons.) This does not mean that it is a visual programming language where some static icons have been replaced by animated icons. Itmeans that animation is the means of communicating the entire meaning of a program to both humans and computers. One programs in ToonTalk by dir ...

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