Developmental Research of Japanese Programing Language 'Mind' for the Information Education at Secondary Education Level

在研究的初始阶段，我们打算使用语言心智的对话模式，并考察儿童学习的效果。在意识到语言操作的困难后，我们开发了一个程序来方便儿童操作该系统。最新开发的心电波系统由文字处理、画图和编程三项功能组成，相互整合，供学童综合使用。尽管我们有这样的意图，但这样的软件在课堂教学中仍然很难操作。在研究的最后阶段，开发了一个新的系统，名为“心灵树”。在进入其他帧之前，容易地构建由文本和图片组成的每个帧的树结构。孩子们永远不会迷失在一堆相框里。他们可以很容易地编辑文本和图片的句子，并开发程序来操纵这样的框架。

At the initial stage of the research, we intended to use the dialog mode of the language 'Mind', and investigate effects of children learning. After realizing difficulties of the operation of language, we developed a program to facilitate the manipulation of the system by children. The newly developed system 'Mind WAVE' was composed of three functions; word processing, picture drawing and programing, which were mutually integrated to be comprehensively utilized by school children. In spite of our intention, such software was still difficult to be handled in classroom teaching. At the last stage of the research, a new system named 'Mind TREE' was developed. A tree structure of each frames composed of texts and pictures is easily constructed before proceeding to other frames. Children are never lost in a pile of frames. They can easily edit sentences of text and picture, and develop programs to manipulate such frames.