Program for Snap!Con 2020
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Joek van Montfort
Turtlestitch is a Snap! modification that connects Turtle art with embroidery. It is a lovely way to materialize your coding efforts. As an example, I will show the joy I found in decoding the Rhythmical lines of Waclaw Szpakowski.
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Wiebke Thumfart
Women are largely underrepresented in STEM professions because of the gender specification that is already occurring at school. This is particularly true in computer science, where approximately 18% of women work in the IT industry in the EU. To get young women enthusiastic about IT, impulses must be set at an early stage, to change women's self-perception and self-efficacy for IT content. A...
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Emily Thomforde
One simple trick to track any variable with live graphing! - Math: proportion, transformation, scale, translation - Science: analyzing & interpreting data - CS: data & analysis, variables Presentation link: bit.ly/snaptimeseries
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Jeremy Millard
DiamondFire teaches coding concepts through a Minecraft multiplayer server. Using a drag-and-drop style coding system, students can create their own games directly within Minecraft. Students can collaborate and build games in real time, and they can also play each other's games together. DiamondFire achieves learning objectives using a unique, social environment and a game everyone loves!<...
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Stefano Federici
By using the BloP extension, I will show that non-high-level-programming-expert users of Snap! can build simple block languages that they can use to introduce their students to the core elements of a programming language such as sequence and looping.
Setting up a few new blocks with their syntax, creating auxiliary elements that can help design the new environment, hiding al...
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