School programming as literacy: the case for BOXER
R. Lewis, D O'Reilly · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning · 1998
Abstract This paper considers the role of school programming using the BOXER environment. It gives details of a two‐year research project in which a group of primary school children (aged 9 ‐ 11) developed their understanding of number through programming in BOXER. It argues that such programming should be regarded as a new form of literacy and as such, developed in concert with subject knowledge, and evaluated over the whole of schooling.