Using scalable game design to promote 3D fluency: Assessing the AgentCubes incremental 3D end-user development framework

Ioannidou, Andri; Repenning, Alexander; Webb, David C.

doi:10.1109/vlhcc.2008.4639057

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“…Unlike the programing approaches discussed above, blocks programming has stayed with AgentSheets for over 20 years now. AgentCubes [10,[32][33][34][35], featuring innovative 3D end-user modeling approaches empowering kids to create their own 3D worlds, includes sophisticated parallel execution and animation models for blocks programming. AgentCubes online is an early Web-based 3D game and simulation authoring tool merging end-user 3D modeling [36] with end-user programming.…”

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“…The game worlds need to be considered part of the programming environment to enable these kinds of explorations by the user supported by the computer. The following sections outline approaches that have been explored to move blocks programming beyond syntax in AgentSheets [18,22,40,[82][83][84][85] and AgentCubes [10,[32][33][34][35]. As the main tools of the Scalable Game Design curriculum [51,86], AgentSheets and AgentCubes include the mechanisms described below.…”

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Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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Section: Shifting Focus To Semantic and Pragmatic Obstaclesmentioning

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Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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2017

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“…A recent body of research suggests that females and males go about debugging (and other software development tasks) differently [Beckwith et al , 2007Grigoreanu et al 2008;Ioannidou et al 2008;Kelleher et al 2007;Rosson et al 2007], leading us to consider gender in our analysis. For example, in spreadsheet debugging, females' self-efficacy (confidence about spreadsheet debugging) [Bandura 1986] has been lower than males', as has their willingness to use new debugging features, which in some cases led to lower performance outcomes .…”

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End-user debugging strategies

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ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Despite decades of research into how professional programmers debug, only recently has work emerged about how end-user programmers attempt to debug programs. Without this knowledge, we cannot build tools to adequately support their needs. This article reports the results of a detailed qualitative empirical study of end-user programmers' sensemaking about a spreadsheet's correctness. Using our study's data, we derived a sensemaking model for end-user debugging and categorized participants' activities and verbalizations according to this model, allowing us to investigate how participants went about debugging. Among the results are identification of the prevalence of information foraging during end-user debugging, two successful strategies for traversing the sensemaking model, potential ties to gender differences in the literature, sensemaking sequences leading to debugging progress, and sequences tied with troublesome points in the debugging process. The results also reveal new implications for the design of spreadsheet tools to support end-user programmers' sensemaking during debugging.

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“…A few other approaches also seek to integrate learning into programming. One approach, explored in the context of animation, had novice programmers create basic programs, such as 2D animations, and then provided features enabling the users to convert their animations to 3D [22]. The approach included a curriculum for educators to help users choose features for overcoming barriers.…”

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From barriers to learning in the idea garden: An empirical study

Cao

Kwan

White

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2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)

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Abstract-How can end-user programming environments better help their users overcome programming barriers? We have been investigating an approach called Idea Gardening, which addresses this problem by helping end users to help themselves overcome barriers in the context of "doing". In this paper, we report on a qualitative empirical study of how effectively an Idea Garden prototype helped end users overcome programming barriers in the CoScripter environment, and the extent to which participants learned after interacting with our features. Our results showed that 9 out of 10 participants who encountered barriers and then used the Idea Garden, overcame their barriers. Further, all 9 went on to demonstrate evidence of having learned the programming concepts, patterns, and strategies relevant to overcoming these barriers.

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Using scalable game design to promote 3D fluency: Assessing the AgentCubes incremental 3D end-user development framework

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Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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From barriers to learning in the idea garden: An empirical study

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