Enhancing and Evaluating Collaborative Blocks Programming in App Inventor (BLOCKS+ 2018)

Sun 4 - Fri 9 November 2018 Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Alissa Tinney, Xinhui Xu

Track

BLOCKS+ 2018

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Sun 4 Nov 2018 15:30 - 15:35 at Beacon Hill - Collaborative Programming

Abstract

App Inventor is a web-based blocks programming environment that allows people of all ages and experiences to build mobile apps.

App Inventor was initially designed for a single user. Developers and researchers are now investigating how to enhance App Inventor’s support for collaboration between two people building a single app. We designed an experiment to evaluate different ways people work together in App Inventor to gain insight on how to improve collaboration in blocks programming environments.

Link to Preprint

http://cs.wellesley.edu/~blocksplus/2018/?id=1

Alissa Tinney

Wellesley College

Xinhui Xu