Transitioning out of Scratch with WoofJS

The leap from Scratch to other programming environments can be daunting for elementary and middle school age youth. Scratch was designed with a fairly unique programming model that, while easy for anyone to pick up, isn’t always an obvious path to programming in other contexts such as high school courses, higher-education, or industry. How do […]

Writing stories and writing code don’t need to be in opposition. The open-source framework Twine let’s you interleave code and story text to build up novel, interesting, new forms of fiction. Twine, and interactive fiction in general, provides an incredibly useful path for both introducing programming to youth who don’t see themselves as programmers and […]