Real-time collaboration for a block-based programming environment

• Main Author: Li, Denis, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Other Authors: Eric Klopfer.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119741

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. === This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. === Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124). === StarLogo Nova is an online education platform for programming and visualizing 3D simulations and games. It has a custom programming language, a compiler, and graphical user interface for shows systems implemented with the programming language. Unlike most programming languages, however, StarLogo Nova uses a block-based programming front-end. This unique front-end leads to interesting challenges when adding new features to StarLogo Nova's programming editor. For this thesis, I designed and implemented a proof of concept real-time collaboration system that supports multi-user undo/redo. The related works, design, implementation, and future work are discussed in this thesis. === by Denis Li. === M. Eng.