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2021-04-02 more news

Congrats Jacqueline!

Jacqueline StaubOn March 22, Jacqueline Staub successfully defended her thesis “Programming in K–6: Understanding Errors and Supporting Autonomous Learning”. One of the results of her work is the online programming environment XLogoOnline, which by now has its firm place in Switzerland's educational landscape and beyond.

Building upon Seymour Papert's famous programming language, Jacqueline's version of Logo is far more than just another implementation. In addition to a text-based environment, there are two block-based versions that allow to foster basic programming concepts such as loops and parameters at a young age. Moreover, the fully bowser-based tool comes with step-by-step code execution, advanced error messages, and many other clever features.