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Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB – take 2
This is a follow up from a post I did about a year and a half ago on using Scratch BYOB to teach recursion. The original way of defining parameters in BYOB were a bit clunky, but it’s gotten much … Continue reading
String methods in Scratch BYOB
Each of the last 3 years we’ve been able to get more and more out of Scratch as it went from 1.2 to 1.4, and especially now with the BYOB 3 version from Berkeley. Adding in the ability to have … Continue reading
Teaching recursion with Scratch BYOB
One of the biggest limits we came across teaching with Scratch this year is the inability to write methods and use parameters. Methods, returns, and parameters are probably the only major concept in our intro CompSci class that we can’t … Continue reading
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