{"id":805,"date":"2016-10-27T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/mik\/?p=805"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:46:53","slug":"stride-a-new-programming-language-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2016\/10\/27\/stride-a-new-programming-language-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Stride &#8211; A new programming language for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Greenfoot headquarters, we \u2013 that is: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neilccbrown?lang=en-gb\">Neil Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amjadaltadmri\">Amjad Altadmri<\/a> and myself \u2013 have recently worked on creating a new language within the Greenfoot environment: Stride.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing about Stride is not so much the language design itself, but its interaction design: editing programs involves different interactions than existing editors.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is that Stride sits halfway between block-based systems (such as Scratch, AppInventor, PencilCode, Alice, etc.) and text-based editors (such as Java or Python), maintaining advantages of both.<\/p>\n<p>I will start a series of posts (text and\/or video) here over the next few weeks trying to tell you what Stride is and why you should care. In the meantime, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenfoot.org\/download\">get Greenfoot<\/a>, install it, and have Stride ready to go when the introduction here starts. Stride is built into Greenfoot from version 3 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for the first overview video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Greenfoot headquarters, we \u2013 that is: Neil Brown, Amjad Altadmri and myself \u2013 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/2016\/10\/27\/stride-a-new-programming-language-for-beginners\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,4,5,8,10,12,13],"tags":[53,101],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bluej-software-tools","category-greenfoot-software-tools","category-hci","category-java","category-programming","category-school","category-stride","category-teaching","tag-greenfoot-software-tools","tag-stride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/proged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}