Papers about ToonTalk  

"ToonTalk - An Animated Programming Environment for Children"

This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC'95). This version has been updated and greatly expanded. It appeared in the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing in June 1996.

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"Metaphor Design - Case Study of An Animated Programming Environment"

This paper was published in the Proceedings of the 1995 Computer Game Developers Conference.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 178KB

"Seeing Systolic Computations in a Video Game World"

This paper was published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Languages, September 1996.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 145KB

"Drawings on napkins, video game animation, and other ways to program computers"

This article was published in the August 1996 issue of the Communications of the ACM.

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"Helping Children to Learn Hard Things: Computer Programming with Familiar Objects and Actions"

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF) - 657KB

"A Computer Game to Teach Programming"

This paper appeared in the Proceedings of the National Educational Computing Conference June 1999

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 799KB

"From Prolog and Zelda to ToonTalk"

This paper appeared in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Logic Programming 1999, edited by Danny De Schreye, MIT Press, 1999.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 1.75MB

"Generalizing by Removing Detail: How Any Program Can Be Created by Working with Examples"

A short version of this paper based upon a different example appeared in the Communications of the ACM, March 2000. This paper is in the book edited by Henry Lieberman Your Wish Is My Command: Programming By Example.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 7.5MB
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"ToonTalk and Logo - Is ToonTalk a colleague, competitor, successor, sibling, or child of Logo?"

This paper appeared in the proceedings of the EuroLogo Conference, August 2001 and the Logo Update newsletter.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF)  - 1.2MB

"Source Code Should be Animated"

This is the July 24, 2001 draft of an article written for Dr. Dobb’s Journal.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF) - 1.8MB

"The Child-Engineering of Arithmetic in ToonTalk"

A short version of this paper to appear in the Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, June 2004.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF) - 1.5MB

"ToonTalk – Steps Towards Ideal Computer-Based Learning Environments"

In Mario Tokoro and Luc Steels, editors, A Learning Zone of One's Own: Sharing Representations and Flow in Collaborative Learning Environments, Ios Pr Inc, June 2004.

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• Adobe Acrobat file (PDF) - 2.4MB

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