Designing a community to support long-term interest in programming for middle school children
Kyle J. Harms, Jordana H. Kerr, Michelle Ichinco, Mark Santolucito, Alexis Chuck, Terian Koscik, Mary Chou, Caitlin L. Kelleher · 2012
To facilitate long-term engagement in programming for middle school children, we developed the Looking Glass Community. The Community includes both a website and integrated access to community resources within the novice programming environment, Looking Glass. We discuss how we designed the Community to support engagement by providing a source for initial ideas, support for learning new skills, positive feedback, and role models.