Localization to Bidirectional Languages for a Visual Programming Environment on Smartphones

Catrobat is a free and open source visual programming environment for smartphones. It has been developed for educational purposes to help students visualize and understand learning material. It allows students to build their own animations and games for their classes in academic subjects and wireles...

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Published inInternational journal of computer science issues Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 1 - 13
Main Author Awwad, Aiman M Ayyal
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mahebourg International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) 31.05.2017
Subjects
Arabic language
Colleges & universities
Computer science
Education
Games
Globalization
International conferences
Localization
Smartphones
Software
Students
Usability
Visual programming languages
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Summary:Catrobat is a free and open source visual programming environment for smartphones. It has been developed for educational purposes to help students visualize and understand learning material. It allows students to build their own animations and games for their classes in academic subjects and wirelessly control external hardware. Catrobat needs to talk to the young children in schools in their native language and enable them to get the best experience in the language of their choice. In this paper, we localize Catrobat into bidirectional languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Hebrew, and introduce the challenging aspects of localization to such languages. The localization testing results show that the product is cosmetically correct, linguistically accurate, and culturally appropriate. Therefore, it meets bidirectional requirements, complies with bidirectionality design guidelines, and can be employed in programming education for young schoolchildren.
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ISSN:1694-0814
1694-0784
DOI:10.20943/01201703.113