A Demonstration of ToonTalk where Children Build Programs by Demonstration in a Game World
Ken Kahn · 2016
Desktop ToonTalk was first released twenty years ago and was successfully used by children as young as 3 to construct computer programs. Uniquely these programs are constructed by demonstration using game elements such as robots, birds, trucks, boxes, and magic wands. The user's avatar inhabits a town where computations can be created and executed in an animated manner.