… 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 …

… 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 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 …

… and evaluating iSnap, the first block-based programming environment to offer data-driven … and automated help when programming. * Comparing the effectiveness of block-based …

… with a class-index based object representation, added a non-blocking FFI …