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Comparing alice, greenfoot & scratch

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Sally Fincher,

Stephen Cooper,

Michael Kölling,

John MaloneyAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 192 - 193

https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734327

Published: 10 March 2010 Publication History

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This panel will showcase and compare three leading Initial Learning Environments (ILE): Alice, Greenfoot and Scratch.

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Comparing alice, greenfoot & scratch
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Visual languages
    2. Development frameworks and environments

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2010

618 pages

ISBN:9781450300063

DOI:10.1145/1734263

General Chairs:
Gary Lewandowski
Xavier University
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Steven Wolfman
University of British Columbia
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Thomas J. Cortina
Carnegie Mellon University
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Ellen L. Walker
Hiram College

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