Visual Programming Language for Thymio II Robot
Visual Programming Language for Thymio II Robot
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Thymio II 机器人的可视化编程语言
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2014
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Stéphane Magnenat
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作者：
Jiwon Shin;R. Siegwart;Stéphane Magnenat
本文介绍了一种用于教学机器人Thymio II的可视化编程语言（vpl）。我们的vpl是为小学生设计的，目的是通过在编程语言的图标和机器人的设计之间建立一种紧密的对应关系，使机器人编程对幼儿来说更容易理解。它的两种运作模式|基本和高级|让孩子们在适合他们当前技能的水平上学习编程。此外，我们的vpl提供了一个实时生成的文本代码，这使得更高级的孩子更容易过渡到文本编程。本文描述了我们的vpl设计背后的目标和指导原则，并演示了如何通过与儿童评估的迭代开发过程来改进vpl。
This paper introduces a visual programming language (vpl) for Thymio II, an educational robot. Our vpl is intended for children in primary school and aims at making robotics programming approachable for young children by creating a close correspondence between the icons of the programming language and the design of the robot. Its two modes of operation | basic and advanced | allow children to learn programming at a level suitable for their current skill. Moreover, our vpl provides a live generation of textual code that eases the transition to textual programming for more advanced children. This paper describes the goals and the guiding principles behind the design of our vpl and demonstrates how an iterative development process with evaluations with children resulted in an improved vpl.