TY - JOUR
T1 - Cocoa at the visual programming challenge 1997
AU - Heger, Nikolaus
AU - Cypher, Allen
AU - Smith, David C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation: NSF CISE-IRI-9616242.
PY - 1998/4
Y1 - 1998/4
N2 - Cocoa is a visual programming language for children. Cocoa attended the Visual Programming Challenge '97 for two reasons: to show that a fairly complex task could be implemented in Cocoa, and to test Cocoa's third-party extensions mechanism. The challenge was to navigate a Lego robot over an arbitrary track of Lego street tiles, and to create a map of the entire layout. Cocoa not only provided a solution but also won the competition. We introduce Cocoa and present our solution to the VPC '97.
AB - Cocoa is a visual programming language for children. Cocoa attended the Visual Programming Challenge '97 for two reasons: to show that a fairly complex task could be implemented in Cocoa, and to test Cocoa's third-party extensions mechanism. The challenge was to navigate a Lego robot over an arbitrary track of Lego street tiles, and to create a map of the entire layout. Cocoa not only provided a solution but also won the competition. We introduce Cocoa and present our solution to the VPC '97.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032036386&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1006/jvlc.1998.0079
DO - 10.1006/jvlc.1998.0079
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032036386
SN - 1045-926X
VL - 9
SP - 151
EP - 169
JO - Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
JF - Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
IS - 2
ER -