Extending Scratch: New pathways into programming
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Dasgupta, Sayamindu
Clements, Shane Morgan
Idlbi, Abdulrahman
Willis-Ford, Christopher
Resnick, Mitchel
Date Issued
December 2015
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2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Dasgupta, Sayamindu, Shane M. Clements, Abdulrahman Y. Idlbi, Chris Willis-Ford, and Mitchel Resnick. “Extending Scratch: New Pathways into Programming.” 2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) (October 2015). © 2015 IEEE
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We present the Scratch extension system, a toolkit that enables anyone to extend the vocabulary of the visual Scratch programming language through custom programming blocks written in JavaScript. The extension system is designed to (i) enable innovating on the Scratch programming language itself, in addition to innovating with it through projects, and (ii) enable the creation of new interest-driven pathways into Scratch programming. In this paper, we describe some of the prior work done in this space, our design and implementation, open questions and challenges, and some preliminary outcomes.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2015.7357212
