Removing the Walls Around Visual Educational Programming Environments

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing) pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Broll, Brian, Ledeczi, Akos, Stein, Gordon, Jean, Devin, Brady, Corey, Grover, Shuchi, Catete, Veronica, Barnes, Tiffany
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 10.10.2021
• Subjects: Codes; COVID-19; Distributed databases; Educational robots; Toy manufacturing industry; Visualization; Web services

Many block-based programming environments have proven to be effective at engaging novices in learning programming. However, most restrict access to the outside world, limiting learners to commands and computing resources built in to the environment. Some allow learners to drag and drop files, connec...