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The Greenfoot Programming Environment

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ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), Volume 10, Issue 4

Article No.: 14, Pages 1 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868358.1868361

Published: 01 November 2010 Publication History

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Greenfoot is an educational integrated development environment aimed at learning and teaching programming. It is aimed at a target audience of students from about 14 years old upwards, and is also suitable for college- and university-level education. Greenfoot combines graphical, interactive output with programming in Java, a standard, text-based object-oriented programming language. This article first describes Greenfoot and then goes on to discuss design goals and motivations, strengths and weaknesses of the system, and its relation to two environments with similar goals, Scratch and Alice.

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The Greenfoot Programming Environment
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education

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ACM Transactions on Computing Education Volume 10, Issue 4

November 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1868358

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Published: 01 November 2010

Accepted: 01 September 2010

Received: 01 September 2010

Published in TOCE Volume 10, Issue 4

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