A practice and evaluation of “ Pictogramming” from the viewpoint of design and art education

We have been developing a programming learning environment for novices called “Pictogramming,” which has been released on the web. The application moves the parts of a humanshaped pictogram using a command sequence called the “Pictogram Animation Command The application can also draw the movement history (similar to turtle graphics) as “Pictogram graphics The combination of both functions enables a user to use a small command set to create various works over a short period of time, based on design guidelines. Our former journal paper proposes “pictogramming” itself, and evaluates practical lessons based on its relationship with “syntonic learning In this paper, we report several functions, which help the users make pictograms more easily, and learn new programming concepts. We designed lessons that integrated design and art education using “Pictogramming” and analyzed the questionnaires and submitted works.