WeScheme: The Browser is Your Programming Environment

Danny Yoo, Emmanuel Schanzer, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler

Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 2011

Abstract

We present a programming environment called WeScheme that runs in the Web browser and supports interactive development. WeScheme programmers can save programs directly on the Web, making them accessible from everywhere. As a result, sharing of programs is a central focus that WeScheme supports seamlessly. The environment also leverages the existing presentation media and program run-time support found in Web browsers, thus making these easily accessible to students and leveraging their rapid engineering improvements. WeScheme is being used successfully by students, and is especially valuable in schools that have prohibitions on installing new software or lack the computational demands of more intensive programming environments.

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