List of Tables
- Table 1. Tech Team participants during the 2011-2012 year at Sugar Labs @ NDSU.
List of Figures
- Figure 1. Screen capture of Code.org’s home page on Feb.12, 2013, with images and quotations from thought leaders about the value of learning how to code.
- Figure 2. Screen capture of codeyear.com splash page on Nov. 20th, 2012.
- Figure 3. LOGO programming environment: source code on the right, result from source on the left (Wikipedia, LOGO).
- Figure 4. Drawing objects and writing scripts in Etoys (squeakland.org).
- Figure 5. The Sugar Labs handout of the Home View in Sugar.
- Figure 6. An example set of shapes that we challenged our students to create using the Repeat block during the first session with the Turtle Art activity.
- Figure 7. An example demo that helped students learn how to compose scripts during our first session of Etoys.
- Figure 8. Clips from multiple Physics and Etoys sessions.
- Figure 9. Video of students on their first day using Turtle Art working through the shape challenges.
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