Etoys for One Laptop Per Child

Freudenberg, Bert; Ohshima, Yoshiki; Wallace, Scott A.

doi:10.1109/c5.2009.9

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“…As a tool providing blocks programming to create games and simulations, it made a significant step in moving away from "hard and boring" toward "accessible and exciting." Similar block approaches were later found in Squeak eToys [28,29], Alice [30], and ten years later in Scratch [31]. Unlike the programing approaches discussed above, blocks programming has stayed with AgentSheets for over 20 years now.…”

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confidence: 83%

Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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Section: Syntactic Challenges and Beyondmentioning

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Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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2017

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“…For example, there is only a single work in the domain of scientific simulations which aims at creating an effect. While interactive simulations have often been proposed as a medium for education, and live coding does cover the live creation of visual simulations, there seems to be little work on programming interactive ones live in talks, presentations, or even performances [9]. Another surprisingly uncovered domain in the corpora is game development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploratory and Live, Programming and Coding

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Various programming tools, languages, and environments give programmers the impression of changing a program while it is running. This experience of liveness has been discussed for over two decades and a broad spectrum of research on this topic exists. Amongst others, this work has been carried out in the communities around three major ideas which incorporate liveness as an important aspect: live programming, exploratory programming, and live coding.While there have been publications on the focus of each particular community, the overall spectrum of liveness across these three communities has not been investigated yet. Thus, we want to delineate the variety of research on liveness. At the same time, we want to investigate overlaps and differences in the values and contributions between the three communities.Therefore, we conducted a literature study with a sample of 212 publications on the terms retrieved from three major indexing services. On this sample, we conducted a thematic analysis regarding the following aspects: motivation for liveness, application domains, intended outcomes of running a system, and types of contributions. We also gathered bibliographic information such as related keywords and prominent publications.Besides other characteristics the results show that the field of exploratory programming is mostly about technical designs and empirical studies on tools for general-purpose programming. In contrast, publications on live coding have the most variety in their motivations and methodologies with a majority being empirical studies with users. As expected, most publications on live coding are applied to performance art. Finally, research on live programming is mostly motivated by making programming more accessible and easier to understand, evaluating their tool designs through empirical studies with users.In delineating the spectrum of work on liveness, we hope to make the individual communities more aware of the work of the others. Further, by giving an overview of the values and methods of the individual communities, we hope to provide researchers new to the field of liveness with an initial overview. ACM CCS 2012Software and its engineering → Development frameworks and environments;

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“…Many end-user programming environments including Scratch [43], Squeak/EToys [7], Alice [4], and AgentSheets include programming palettes (libraries) of building blocks (see also in Figure 2, the Conditions and Actions palette). The main purpose of these palettes is to allow end users to browse building blocks, explore them and employ them by dragging and dropping them into operational programs.…”

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“…More recent systems aimed at end-users such a Scratch [43], Alice [4] and Squeak/eToys [7] employ similar approaches.…”

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Conversational programming

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Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming &Amp; Software

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Our powerful computers help very little in debugging the program we have so we can change it into the program we want. We introduce Conversational Programming as a way to harness our computing power to inspect program meaning through a combination of partial program execution and semantic program annotation. A programmer in our approach interactively selects highly autonomous "agents" in a program world as conversation topics and then changes the world to explore the potential behaviors of a selected agent in different scenarios. In this way, the programmer proactively knows how their code affects program execution as they explore various contexts. This paper describes conversational programming through design principles and use cases.

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Etoys for One Laptop Per Child

Abstract: We present an overview of the "OLPC Etoys" system, describe the intensive two-year development effort that produced the system, and discuss lessons learned.

Cited by 14 publications

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Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

Moving Beyond Syntax: Lessons from 20 Years of Blocks Programing in AgentSheets

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