ISE:Planning: Collaborative Research: Informal Discovery of Programming Concepts Via Reflective Programming

这项规划工作是马里兰大学、康奈尔大学、卡内基梅隆大学和伊萨卡科学中心的团队合作进行的，涉及开发和测试一种独特的方法，用于教育年轻人进行计算机编程。通过巧妙地伪装成小动物的移动机器人，参与者将学习通过物理移动它来操纵系统，以及通过电子按钮设置变量，从而学习编程和设计。这个系统和方法的最终用途是在博物馆的展品中，因此将从目前使用功能较差的设备的各种场所收集初步调查数据。迭代测试将在科学中心的展品中进行。

This planning effort, a collaboration of teams at the University of Maryland, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University and the Sciencenter of Ithaca, deals with the development and testing of a unique methodology for educating youth in computer programming. Through a mobile robot that is cleverly disguised as a small animal, participants will learn to manipulate the system by physically moving it as well as setting variables via electronic buttons thereby learning programming and design. The eventual use of this system and methodology is in museum exhibits so preliminary survey data will be gathered from various venues that presently use less capable devices. Iterative testing will be done at the Sciencenter in its exhibits.