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In this paper, we present TLogic, a tangible programming tool for children aged 6–8. The tool contains two parts: tangible programming blocks and visual tasks with different difficulty levels. Children could use tangible programming blocks to complete visual tasks shown on computer screen. To evaluate our tool, a user study was conducted with 10 children. Results of user study show that the tool could reduce children’s cognitive load while solving the tasks and children are more interested in challenging tasks than easy tasks in our tool.
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This research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program under Grant No. 2016YFB0401202, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61672507, 61272325, 61501463 and 61562063.
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Deng, X., Wang, D., Jin, Q. (2019). TLogic: A Tangible Programming Tool to Help Children Solve Problems. In: El Rhalibi, A., Pan, Z., Jin, H., Ding, D., Navarro-Newball, A., Wang, Y. (eds) E-Learning and Games. Edutainment 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11462. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23712-7_35
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