How Can Children Express Their Intentions Through Coding?
Takeshi Watanabe, Yuriko Nakayama, Yasunori Harada, Yasushi Kuno · 2019
Viscuit is a programming language developed by one of the authors. With Viscuit, you can move and change multiple pictures on the screen using eyeglasses, which make a sequence from left to right, following from-to (picture rewriting) rules. Its distinguishing feature is that the program is expressed solely with pictures and their layouts. No letters are necessary at all. Therefore, Viscuit is perfectly suitable for pre-school children. We have been carrying out regular programming lessons in a kindergarten in Japan since 2015. We have recorded and analysed almost all of the programs made by 56 children aged 5-6 years in a series of 13 lessons held during the school year 2017. In this poster we report how the children could express their intentions through coding.