Education Beyond Blocks: Syntax and Semantics.

The author shares insight on the feasibility of blocks-based structured editing to become a standard for industrial and academic language developers. He suggests the potential of block and text hybrid environments to improve the efficiency and usability of general purpose programming. He highlights...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 5; pp. 39 - 42
Main Authors:	Benjamin Shapiro, R., Ahrens, Matthew
Format:	Opinion
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery May2016
Subjects:	Computer programming Blocks (Group theory) Semantic computing Syntax in programming languages Computer programmers
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost