Sun 4 Nov 2018 16:35 - 16:40 at Beacon Hill - Implementers’ Campfire

Scratch brings together millions of young people world wide in creating digital projects fueled by their passions and creativity. The Scratch online community and its collaborative culture of remixing enables children to share these projects in a supportive online community, building creative confidence.

With the launch of the newest version of Scratch, the community will be able to create in new ways, combining their digital creations with the physical world. Scratch 3.0 is introducing a new system of Extensions, sets of blocks that extend the Scratch programming environment by connecting it to online services and hardware devices in an interoperable environment. Scratch 3.0 extensions have all the power of the Scratch programming language and operate within the Scratch virtual machine so that users can tinker with their code and get live feedback.

In this talk, we will discuss the Scratch 3.0 extension system, the design process surrounding creating some of the existing extensions, and the process and guidelines for being able to create your own extensions to the Scratch 3.0 environment.

Sun 4 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

16:15 - 17:00
Implementers’ CampfireBLOCKS+ at Beacon Hill
16:15
5m
Talk
Rethinking OOP in Snap!
BLOCKS+
Jens Mönig SAP SE, Brian Harvey University of California, Berkeley, Jadga Hügle SAP SE
Pre-print
16:20
5m
Talk
Custom Blocks in StarLogo Nova: A Template-Based Approach to Abstraction for Improved Ease of Use and Expressive Power
BLOCKS+
Hyeonsu Kang MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program, David Wu MIT, Daniel Wendel MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program
Pre-print
16:25
5m
Talk
Two New Block Features in GP
BLOCKS+
16:30
5m
Talk
JSON Interoperability in MIT App Inventor
BLOCKS+
Evan W Patton Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Danny Tang Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pre-print
16:35
5m
Talk
Scratch 3.0 Design Notes
BLOCKS+
16:40
20m
Other
Implementers’ Campfire: Whole group discussions
BLOCKS+