A large amount of our curriculum and programming tools at Code.org have been designed around Blockly, which has allowed us to create customized programming environments that are accessible to young students. Creating Blockly-based environments, however, has always been a slow process, requiring a great deal of engineering time. To reduce the cost of iteration and allow our curriculum team greater flexibility in exploring new programming contexts, Code.org’s engineering team developed a web-based toolkit for developing new blockly libraries allowing much more rapid prototyping of new block-based programming environments.

Sun 4 Nov

Displayed time zone: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey change

14:10 - 15:00
Accessibility & Language Construction ToolsBLOCKS+ at Beacon Hill
14:10
10m
Talk
Building an Accessible Block Environment
BLOCKS+
Emmanuel Schanzer Brown University, Sina Bahram Prime Access Consulting, Shriram Krishnamurthi Brown University, USA
Pre-print
14:20
5m
Talk
Language Workbench Support for Block-Based DSLs
BLOCKS+
Mauricio Verano Merino Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen
Pre-print
14:25
5m
Talk
Rapid Prototyping for Blocks-based Languages and Environments
BLOCKS+
Josh Caldwell Code.org, Josh Lory Code.org
Pre-print
14:30
5m
Talk
TypeScript: From JavaScript to Blockly and Back
BLOCKS+
Thomas Ball Microsoft Research, Peli de Halleux Microsoft Research, Sam El-Husseini Microsoft, Richard Knoll Microsoft, Michał Moskal Microsoft Research
Pre-print
14:35
25m
Other
Themed Session 3: Break-out discussions and demos/posters
BLOCKS+