Developing a mobile based application for feature phones to teach children in rural area how to code
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2014-04
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Abstract
It is important that while the world moves towards a digital age, people around
the world build fluency in communicating with computers. In order to remain
relevant, programming skills are highly necessary in the 21st century. In order
to create such a culture, starting from the children is a step in the right
direction.
Teaching programming to children in schools has become just as necessary as
teaching them Mathematics, English or Science. In developing countries
however, children are being left behind for two reasons; educational curriculums
that do not support this new wave and systems that are not well structured or
resourced to tackle this issue.
Nevertheless, it is necessary that children learn to program, however, it is even
more important that children are taught to program in the way that they learn
best, not the way that may be traditionally accepted.
The paper discusses a tool that has been developed on feature phones to teach
children in rural areas, in the upper primary level how to code.
Description
Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, April 2014
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children, programming, feature phones, Ghana, Berekuso, interactive game