Da Computação Desplugada à programação em Processing: uma experiência com crianças de 8 a 10 anos

Abstract

This article discusses, through a didactic experience report,how Unplugged Computing can serve as a scaffold in thelearning and use of the Processing programming language.The respective action took the form of two workshops withchildren aged between 8 and 10 at a municipal school in theinterior of Sa o Paulo. The activities were designed based onthe Mathematics curriculum proposal of that municipality,which served as a foundation to define topics and previousconcepts in the construction of materials. The UnpluggedComputing workshop aimed at a direct relationship with thecommands and organization of information in Processing, itscompilation and coding processes. The Processing workshoptook the previous concrete practices as support structuresand association with the stage of programming,implementation and interpretation of results. Both workshopstogether had as a pillar and main motivation for study, thedevelopment and exploration of skills and common elementsof Computational Thinking.