The Bricklayer Ecosystem - Art, Math, and Code

Victor Winter
(University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Betty Love
(University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Cindy Corritore
(Creighton University)

This paper describes the Bricklayer Ecosystem - a freely-available online educational ecosystem created for people of all ages and coding backgrounds. Bricklayer is designed in accordance with a "low-threshold infinite ceiling" philosophy and has been successfully used to teach coding to primary school students, middle school students, university freshmen, and in-service secondary math teachers. Bricklayer programs are written in the functional programming language SML and, when executed, create 2D and 3D artifacts. These artifacts can be viewed using a variety of third-party tools such as LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), LDraw, Minecraft clients, Brickr, as well as STereoLithography viewers.

In Johan Jeuring and Jay McCarthy: Proceedings of the 4th and 5th International Workshop on Trends in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE 2015/6), Sophia-Antipolis, France and University of Maryland College Park, USA, 2nd June 2015 and 7th June 2016, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 230, pp. 47–61.
Published: 26th November 2016.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.230.4 bibtex PDF
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