BloP: easy creation of Online Integrated Environments to learn custom and standard Programming Languages

FEDERICI, STEFANO;GOLA, ELISABETTA

2015-01-01

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Abstract

In this paper we will describe BloP, a new programming tool that has been designed in order to allow teachers to quickly and easily develop their own online IDEs (integrated development environments) for their programming language of choice. IDEs developed with BloP are pure Javascript code and can then run inside all major internet browsers without need for any extension or plugin. Moreover, BloP IDEs can be embedded inside SCORM packages in order to be straightforwardly added to every e-learning platform supporting the SCORM standard. BloP is based on the same philosophy of Scratch, the most successful programming environment of the last decade.