B@SE: Blocks for @rduino in the Students’ educational process

Tamilias, Alexander G.; Themelis, Theodoros J.; Karvounidis, Theodoros; Garofalaki, Zacharenia; Kallergis, Dimitrios

doi:10.1109/educon.2017.7942956

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“…HybridPencilCode [6] PencilCode and Droplet Transition from block to text notation. B@ase [146] Blockly@rduino Transition from block to text-based environment. PyBlockly [142] Blockly Add a block-based editor for Python.…”

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DRAFT-What you always wanted to know but could not find about block-based environments

Merino,

Vinju,

Brand

2021

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Block-based environments are visual programming environments, which are becoming more and more popular because of their ease of use. The ease of use comes thanks to their intuitive graphical representation and structural metaphors (jigsaw-like puzzles) to display valid combinations of language constructs to the users. Part of the current popularity of block-based environments is thanks to Scratch.As a result they are often associated with tools for children or young learners. However, it is unclear how these types of programming environments are developed and used in general. So we conducted a systematic literature review on block-based environments by studying 152 papers published between 2014 and 2020, and a non-systematic tool review of 32 block-based environments. In particular, we provide a helpful inventory of block-based editors for end-users on different topics and domains. Likewise, we focused on identifying the main components of block-based environments, how they are engineered, and how they are used. This survey should be equally helpful for language engineering researchers and language engineers alike. CCS Concepts: • General and reference → Surveys and overviews; • Software and its engineering → Graphical user interface languages; Visual languages; Integrated and visual development environments.

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DRAFT-What you always wanted to know but could not find about block-based environments

Merino,

Vinju,

Brand

2021

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“…Extending existing block-based environments is also a common practice to develop block-based environments. Tamilias et al [46] extended Blockly@rduino to create B@SE, a block-based environment to ease the transition from blocks to text-based programming. Similarly, Nergaard [35] created a block-based policy editor for XACML by extending Scratch.…”

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“…Block-based environments have seen many uses in the software engineering field [1,2,11,37,50,51]. They have also been widely investigated as educational tools [9,13,22,25,31,46,49]. However, developing block-based environments currently lacks solid engineering principles, which leads to ad-hoc implementation using various technologies and frameworks.…”

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confidence: 99%