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Use Snap! as a more advanced alternative to Scratch in an introductory programming course.

  • Find the resource at http://byob.berkeley.edu/

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  • Scratch
  • Other Programming Language
  • Intro Programming
  • Snap!
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Georgia Tech's 2012 AP CS Teachers' Workshop, under "Links to material"

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