Presented by:

Michael Ball

from UC Berkeley

I'm currently a Lecturer at UC Berkeley, developer on the Snap!, Snap!Con and BJC Teams.

Jens Mönig

from SAP

Jens Mönig is a researcher at SAP and makes interactive programming environments. He is fanatical about visual coding blocks. Jens is the architect and lead programmer of UC Berkeley’s "Snap! Build Your Own Blocks" programming language, used in the introductory “Beauty and Joy of Computing” curriculum. Previously Jens has worked under Alan Kay on the GP programming language together with John Maloney and Yoshiki Ohshima, helped develop Scratch for the MIT Media Lab and written enterprise software at MioSoft. Jens is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany and has been an attorney, corporate counsel and lecturer for many years before rediscovering his love for programming through Scratch and Squeak. For leisure Jens likes guitar picking and strumming his mandolin.

Joan Guillén

from Cesire* at Catalan Education Department, Snap4Arduino and Snap! Team, RobolotTeam
  • Tech teacher.
  • Working in innovation and teacher training at Education Department of Catalonia.
  • Snap4Arduino developer.

Jadga works on Snap! and loves to create fun projects that might also be helpful for students and teachers. Her favourite Snap! block is map <3

Brian Harvey

from UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley Teaching Professor Emeritus. Co-developer (with Jens Mönig) of Snap!; co-developer (with Dan Garcia and several grad students at Berkeley, and a team at EDC led by Paul Goldenberg) of the Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum. Long ago Logo developer and author of the three-volume Computer Science Logo Style books. Co-author (with Matt Wright) of Simply Scheme, a prequel to SICP.

Bernat Romagosa

from SAP, Snap!, MicroBlocks

Bernat is a software developer from Barcelona. He develops for Snap! and MicroBlocks, and is the author of Snap4Arduino and a bunch of other Snap! modifications.

The creators of Snap! close out Snap!Con with an interactive discussion on the future of Snap!.


Discuss on the Snap! Forum

Duration:
1 h
Room:
Plenary Sessions
Conference:
Snap!Con 2020
Language:
English
Type:
Panel
Track:
Panels
Difficulty:
N/A