Alice, Greenfoot, and Scratch - A discussion

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Utting, Ian ^a   Cooper, Stephen ^b   Kölling, Michael ^a   Maloney, John ^c   Resnick, Mitchel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alice; Greenfoot; Programming environment; Programming language; Scratch; Visual programming language

Indexed keywords

ALICE; GREENFOOT; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SCRATCH; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 78650490609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1868358.1868364     Document Type: Article

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