Kids, coding, and connections : extending the ScratchJr programming environment to support wireless physical devices

This thesis presents a system and design for the connection of the ScratchJr programming environment to wireless physical devices. Using ScratchJr, young kids can create interactive stories, animations, and games on mobile tablet devices. With the extension system developed in this thesis, young kids can program wireless lights, motors, sensors, toy robots, and other Bluetooth Smart products and devices. Developers can use the framework to connect ScratchJr to more devices, and a streamlined programming interface is provided for this purpose. The thesis discusses the implementation of several example extensions, and it compares the design and functionality to similar mobile programming environments.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2015

Author dc:creator

• Mickel, Timothy R

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mitchel Resnick.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106001

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/106001