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This workshop is for high school and college teachers of general-interest ("CS 0") computer science courses, especially the AP CS: Principles course. SNAP! (Build Your Own Blocks) is a free, browser-based, graphical, drag-and-drop language inspired by Scratch. The beauty of the Scratch programming environment, designed for 8-14 year olds, is that it makes abstract concepts more concrete and understandable to a broader audience. SNAP! extends Scratch to support older learners (14-20) with built-in named procedures (thus recursion), procedures as data (thus higher order functions), structured lists, and sprites as first class objects with inheritance.

Participants will learn SNAP! hands-on. See http://snap.berkeley.edu for details. Network connected laptop required.

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Snap! (build your own blocks) (abstract only)
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Extensible languages
        Multiparadigm languages

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SIGCSE '14: Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2014

800 pages

ISBN:9781450326056

DOI:10.1145/2538862

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J. D. Dougherty
J.D. Dougherty, Haverford College
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Kris Nagel
Georgia Gwinnett College
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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Kurt Eiselt
University of British Columbia

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