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Daniel Wendel
MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program
… Daniel Wendel is the Lead Developer and Research Manager for StarLogo Nova, a blocks-based programming environment designed to enable students and teachers to build agent-based computational models with little to no prior programming …
Erik Pasternak
… APIs. He now manages the Blockly team at Google, which works on drag and drop block coding for students and beginner coders of all ages. …
Jens Mönig
SAP SE
… Jens Mönig is a researcher at SAP and makes interactive programming environments. He is fanatical about visual coding blocks. Jens is the architect and lead … Blocks" programming language, used in the introductory “Beauty and Joy of Computing …
Thinking Outside the Blocks
BLOCKS+ When: Sun 4 Nov 2018 13:10 - 14:10 People: R. Benjamin Shapiro
… Since their introduction in the early 1990s, blocks have been a valuable …, and blocks do little to assist with many other problems in learning to program. Workshops and other venues focused on blocks qua blocks offer an unnecessarily limiting …
Building an Accessible Block Environment
BLOCKS+ When: Sun 4 Nov 2018 14:10 - 14:20 People: Emmanuel Schanzer, Sina Bahram, Shriram Krishnamurthi
… We discuss a toolkit that provides a fully-accessible block environment, for multiple languages. The toolkit generates (1) a block editor that uses standard … of a block from the visual or textual syntax of that block. This effectively …
Panel: Block Abstractions for Artificial Intelligence
BLOCKS+ When: Sun 4 Nov 2018 10:30 - 11:00 People: Evan W Patton, Stefania Druga, Jessica Van Brummelen, Joe Mazzone, Xavier Puig Fernandez
… Block-based programming languages, such as Scratch and MIT App Inventor, make …. As technology advances, so do the abilities of such block-based programming … (AI) abstractions in block-based languages. Specifically, it will address block …
TypeScript: From JavaScript to Blockly and Back
BLOCKS+ When: Sun 4 Nov 2018 14:30 - 14:35 People: Thomas Ball, Peli de Halleux, Sam El-Husseini, Richard Knoll, Michal Moskal
… the gap between JavaScript and Blockly, a framework for creating block-based … errors. In particular, we define a mapping from TypeScript to Blockly that makes it simple to create a domain-specific Blockly editor for a JavaScript library via …
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
… , SIGPLAN had to guarantee a room block of 700 nights. Any pickup below …
BLOCKS+
… Blocks programming, in which program syntax trees are represented as visual blocks, is popular in programming environments targeted at beginner programmers … sessions in which participants describe recent work related to blocks languages …
REBLS 2018
… runs on every code change and blocks changes that introduce potential threading …
Onward! Papers
… (names, institutions, etc) from the author block of the first page of the paper …
BLOCKS+ 2018 Homepage
… BLOCKS+ 2018 Welcome to the website of the BLOCKS+ 2018 conference. We are working hard to fill the website with all related information. Please check back soon! 6b9386c1-4cb0-423a-9995-f1128f1eb146 …
SPLASH 2018 Homepage
… BLOCKS …