The Bricklayer Ecosystem - Art, math, and code

Victor Winter; Betty Love; Cindy Corritore

doi:10.4204/EPTCS.230.4

The Bricklayer Ecosystem - Art, math, and code

Victor Winter, Betty Love, Cindy Corritore

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This paper describes the Bricklayer Ecosystem - a freely-available online educational ecosystem created for people of all ages and coding backgrounds. Bricklayer is designed in accordance with a "low-threshold infinite ceiling" philosophy and has been successfully used to teach coding to primary school students, middle school students, university freshmen, and in-service secondary math teachers. Bricklayer programs are written in the functional programming language SML and, when executed, create 2D and 3D artifacts. These artifacts can be viewed using a variety of third-party tools such as LEGO® Digital Designer (LDD), LDraw, Minecraft clients, Brickr, as well as STereoLithography viewers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	47-61
Number of pages	15
Journal	Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, EPTCS
Volume	230
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.230.4
State	Published - Nov 26 2016
Event	5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2016 and 4th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education, TFPIE 2015 - College Park, United States Duration: Jun 7 2015 → …

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