Treffer: Programming Concepts in Playful Programming Products.
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There is wide recognition that teaching children to program is immensely important. A new digital divide is potentially defined in terms of competencies to create programs rather than access to computers. In this context perseverance and motivation needed to acquire programming skills are gatekeepers as are appropriate learning materials. Thus a new category of software products that attempts to turn learning to programme into play is of special interest. These playful programming products are the focus of our research program trying to bring perspective to their potential. A mid level goal of this program is to comprehensively compare different products against a stable list of skills and understandings supported by the category of playful programming software. This paper aims to initiate systematic development of this list of skills and takes inspiration from Brennan & Resnick (2012) where a model of computational thinking is held up against features of the visual programming language Scratch. However, we refine this model by assessing another playful programming product against it. The changing model is represented in a series of concept specialisation maps to support greater overview and transparency. A final relatively stable map is discussed with respect to the larger research projects goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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