Kodu Idiom Flash Cards

• Flash cards for Kodu idioms.
  Print them out, laminate them, and place them on a keyring.

Kodu Tile Manipulatives

• Plastic tiles for constructing Kodu rules.
  Order a set from me, or make your own (source files are provided).

The Laws of Kodu

• The Laws of Kodu explain how the rule interpreter works, and are crucial to students' understanding of Kodu.
  Soon to be available as fridge magnets!

Kodu Instructional Videos

• The First Law of Kodu
• The Second Law of Kodu

Kodu Buttons

• Buttons to use as rewards for Kodu students.
  Make your own (source files provided).

Kodu Pedagogy

• Aggarwal, A., Touretzky, D. S., and Gardner-McCune, C. (2018) Demonstating the ability of elementary school students to reason about programs. Proceedings of SIGCSE '18, Baltimore, MD. Association for Computing Machinery.

• Touretzky, D. S., Gardner-McCune, C., Isaac Jr., J., and Tomokiyo, L. (2018) Couplets: helping elementary school students recognize structure in code. Poster presented at SIGCSE '18, Baltimore, MD.

• Touretzky, D. S. (2017) Computational thinking and mental models: From Kodu to Calypso. Proceedings of the 2017 Blocks & Beyond Workshop, Raleigh, NC, October 10, 2017. IEEE Press.

• Touretzky, D. S., Gardner-McCune, C., and Aggarwal, A. (2017) Semantic reasoning in young programmers. Proceedings of SIGCSE '17, Seattle, WA. Association for Computing Machinery. Click here for slides.

• Aggarwal, A., Gardner-McCune, C., and Touretzky, D. S. (2017) Evaluating the effect of using physical manipulatives to foster computational thinking in elementary school. Proceedings of SIGCSE '17, Seattle, WA. Association for Computing Machinery.

• Aggarwal, A. (2017) Developing Computational Reasoning Skill and Mental Simulation Ability in Elementary School Students Using Microsoft Kodu. MS thesis, University of Florida.

• Touretzky, D. S. (2016) Using Kodu to teach reasoning about programs. Microsoft Webinar slides. Watch the webinar here.

• Touretzky, D. S., Gardner-McCune, C., and Aggarwal, A. (2016) Teaching 'lawfulness' with Kodu. Proceedings of SIGCSE '16, Memphis, TN. Association for Computing Machinery. Slides.

• Aggarwal, A., Gardner-McCune, C., and Touretzky, D. S. (2016) Designing and refining of questions to assess students' ability to mentally simulate programs and predict program behavior. Poster presented at SIGCSE'16.

• Touretzky, D. S. (2014) Teaching Kodu with physical manipulatives. ACM Inroads, 5(4):44-51.

• Touretzky, D. S., Marghitu, D., Ludi, S., Bernstein, D., and Ni, L. (2013) Accelerating computational thinking using scaffolding, staging, and abstraction. Proceedings of SIGCSE '13, Denver, CO. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 609-614.

Experimental Curriculum

Click here for access to our experimental Kodu curriculum, still under development.

Miscellaneous

• Principles of Kodu Computation

• Student misconceptions about Kodu. (A work in progress.)

• Kodu vocabulary for teachers

• Importing and Exporting Kodu Worlds

• Gamepad controller advice.

• Kodu for Kids by James Floyd Kelly is a nice text on game programming in Kodu.