Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Educatio Competition Category.

FerrumEducatio· 2020

Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis

by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co., Ltd.

Client: Goolalang

Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Educatio Category

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The Design

About Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis

Goolalang est suggestum educationis programmandi pueris parvis destinatum. Goolalang lingua programmandi "trahe-et-pone" utitur, quae gradui scholae infantilis (kindergarten) accommodata est. Programma speciem viae desuper visae praebet, cum signis quae directionem fluxus monstrant, et vestigio pedis quod truncum currentem notat. Pueri scaenas construunt imagines et fundos e bibliothecis important, deinde truncos programmandi adiungunt ut fabulas et animationes pluribus imaginibus instructas scribant. Series lectionum inclusa est, et programmata inter instrumenta communicari possunt.

The Recognition

About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum

Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Goolalang Munus Programmandi Educationis ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Goolalang App is a programming platform for young children based on Goolalang, which is a new drag-and-drop programming language. The appearance of a Goolalang program is like a top-down road with signs representing the direction the program runs. When program is running, a footprint stops where the program executes. It is easy to write multi-sprite stories and animations due to the creative programming blocks. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses to help children learn Goolalang.
Dimensions & Packaging: This application is based on iPad size and iOS 9 and above system.
Tags: Goolalang, Kindergarten, Programming education, Graphical Programming, STEM
Production Technology: Prototype: Pencil and paper, Axure RP.
UI Design: Adobe Illustrator.
Application Development: Xcode.
Design Challenge: One challenge is that while we realize the great importance of programming thinking in the kindergarten stage, Chinese society generally pays less attention to programming education in kindergarten. The other one is the difficulty to design the programming language, which should not only express programming concepts correctly, including sequences, loops, event and so on but also consider the understanding ability of kindergarten children.
Research: We first study the theory of children's pedagogy, and then adopt the real user test of the beta version. Users of beta test are 30 children around 5-7 years old and 10 adults including kindergarten teachers, full-time mothers, college students, etc. The testing result shows every children show great interest in learning Goolalang programming, and most children can program their own stories or animations freely, which proves Goolalang is suitable for children to learn programming.
Inspiration: With the increasing popularity of children's programming education, programming education in the kindergarten stage has increasingly attracted the attention of society. However, the existing programming and creation tools for kindergarten children are few, which limits the ability of children to create freely. The promotion of kindergarten programming education needs programming languages and tools suitable for kindergarten children's physical development and cognitive level.
Project Duration: The project began at Zhejiang University in China in 2017 and is currently being developed by Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Operation Flow: In Goolalang, young children can build scenes by importing favourite sprites and backgrounds from libraries, then write programs by grabbing a programming block, finding a suitable position and attaching it under or inside another programming block again and again. Goolalang App also prepares a series of courses, so young children can program while watching online videos. The video window can be dragged to any position and zoomed to any size. Also, programs can be shared through Airdrop.
Patents: goolalang. 2019 Hangzhou Maiyike Technology Co.,Ltd.
Team Members: Yinghan Jin
Yiqiang Chen
Min He
Chunying Luo