The scratch programming language and environment

ACM Transactions on Computing Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Maloney, John ^a,b   Resnick, Mitchel ^a   Rusk, Natalie ^a   Silverman, Brian ^a   Eastmond, Evelyn ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Programming environment; Programming language; Scratch; Visual programming language

Indexed keywords

DESIGN GOAL; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SCRATCH; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; VISUAL PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

ADA (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78650495486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1868358.1868363     Document Type: Article

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