Abstract
One of the more difficult portions of learning to program is memorizing and understanding the syntactic and semantic rules associated with a language. This paper discusses how to simplify this task as well as presents a case study of a simplified implementation to include multiple variable types successfully tested on first grade students.
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Youngster: a simplified introduction to computing: removing the details so that a child may program
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