In Japan, programming education has become compulsory in elementary school, and it is expected that programming thinking will flourish in elementary school and beyond by fostering programming thinking in young children. There have been several studies of toys for fostering programming thinking in young children. However, they have some problems. In this letter, we develop a programming toy for young children using ‘Plarail’ train toy to overcome problems of the toys used in the previous studies. © 2021 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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使用火车玩具开发编程学习工具

在日本，编程教育已成为小学的必修课，预计通过培养幼儿的编程思维，编程思维将在小学及以后蓬勃发展。已经有几项关于玩具可以培养幼儿编程思维的研究。然而，他们有一些问题。在这封信中，我们使用“Plarail”火车玩具为幼儿开发了一种编程玩具，以克服以前研究中使用的玩具的问题。© 2021 日本电气工程师学会。由 Wiley Periodicals LLC 出版。