Invitation to Ezhil: A Tamil Programming Language for Early Computer-Science Education
Computers and Society
2013-08-12 v1 Programming Languages
Abstract
Ezhil is a Tamil programming language with support for imperative programming, with mixed use of Tamil and English identifiers and function-names. Ezhil programing system is targeted toward the K-12 (junior high-school) level Tamil speaking students, as an early introduction to thinking like a computer-scientist. We believe this 'numeracy' knowledge is easily transferred over from a native language (Tamil) to the pervasive English language programming systems, in Java, dot-Net, Ruby or Python. Ezhil is an effort to improve access to computing in the 21st Century.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1308.1733,
title = {Invitation to Ezhil: A Tamil Programming Language for Early Computer-Science Education},
author = {Muthiah Annamalai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1733},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
11 pages, 5 insets, 4 figures; accepted to Tamil Internet Conference, 2013, TI-2013, Malaysia