Are you in or near London? Interested in Greenfoot? I am giving a talk in a few weeks here at King’s in the School of Education about our work with Greenfoot and Stride: THE MID-YEARS OF LEARNING TO PROGRAM: MOVING … Continue reading
Today I will show you what tools and support Greenfoot gives you to transition from Stride to Java, once you are ready to step into a fully text-based editor. But first, as a bonus, we will see how you can … Continue reading
When you give up the idea of characters as your sole point of source code representation, a host of possibilities opens up to improve the visual appearance if your program. This short video shows some of then as implemented in Stride. … Continue reading
In the third part of our series introducing Stride and frame-based editing, we look at the various ways in which the editor can provide you with help in writing your program. If you consider using Stride, it will come handy to know … Continue reading
Table of contents A series of short videos introducing Stride, a new language in Greenfoot and BlueJ. 1: Stride – An introduction 2: Creating a game in 7 minutes 3: With a little help from my editor 4: Visuals and layout 5: Transitioning to Java … Continue reading
This video is mostly for those who want to get a first impression of Greenfoot. We write a simple game in seven minutes (realtime; no cuts!), using Stride. For those who already know Greenfoot with Java: You will see that writing … Continue reading
This is the first in a series of videos introducing Stride. Don’t be put off by the intro at the beginning – you will see code soon enough. I welcome questions and comments, especially suggestions what you would like me … Continue reading
At the Greenfoot headquarters, we – that is: Neil Brown, Amjad Altadmri and myself – have recently worked on creating a new language within the Greenfoot environment: Stride. The interesting thing about Stride is not so much the language design … Continue reading
Finally it is here: The first of the New Joy of Code programming series. In this series of videos I will show you how to program in Greenfoot and Stride. Later in the series, we will also get to programming in … Continue reading
The most popular pages on this blog are the episodes of the ‘Joy Of Code’ video series, which teaches programming with Greenfoot. This video series, however, is somewhat outdated by now. So I have decided to update it and start … Continue reading