120 students. One room. From graphical programming to IoT with MQTT in a single day at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 🤖 Watching them debug, iterate, and bring their robots to life — this is why we built CoCube. Learn more: cocuberobot.com #EdTech #Robotics #AI #IoT #CoCube

im HQ zum Besuch der Theodor-Heuss-Realschule Walldorf, 8. Klasse Informatik, bei SAP gestern und heute, organisiert von meinen Kolleginnen Kathrin Dietenberger und Andrea Tvarusko mit intensivem Workshop zur Faszination Informatik mit Snap!

Remember when we needed special hardware like the Kinect or the LeapMotion to make body language interfaces for games and apps in Snap!? AI has gotten rid of the hardware, now all you need is a device with a webcam! snap.berkeley.edu/project?user...

Lightheadedly considering a daring inofficial alternative title for my upcoming CKC 2026 keynote talk in London this Saturday ckc26.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk as I‘m currently vacationing in France.

Willkommen zurück in der Schule in BW. Was gibt's Neues? snap.schule - für alles, was ihr in der 6. Klassenstufe noch vor den Sommerferien in IuM braucht. Fertige Lerneinheiten zum Programmieren, einen Editor im Browser, Cloud-Speicher für eure Klassen, Zusatzmaterialien. Frei und classroom-ready!

Sur-Face - combining Snap's 3D Beetle extension with MediaComp: Print a photo in 16 isometric layers of brightness levels, a topographic model of the pixel values - a tangible bar chart. When you first hold it in your hands it looks and feels like drunk LEGO, until you turn it into the light...

Aufgepasst IuM Lehrer:innen in BW: am 1.6.2026 starten wir snap.schule - eine freie, offene und datenschutzkonforme Plattform für den Informatikunterricht. Made in BW, gehostet in Brandenburg, wissenschaftlich begleitet in Bayern. Jetzt bookmarken!

Can’t wait to release Snap! v12 on June 1st, chock full of new costumes handcrafted by our awesome artist @ketrinadrawsalot.bsky.social ketrinadrawsalot.com. Ketrina even designed individual limbs that you can string together to make nested sprite puppets dance: snap.berkeley.edu/project?user...

Let me tell you about Circles. A short talk I gave today in Olot, Spain, at RobolotCon26 previewing some new features to be released in Snap! v12 next month, particularly tutorials, templates and AI computer vision: youtu.be/IuzZT_dTLSI. Code along if you like: snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...

Let me tell you about Circles - RobolotCon26

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We’ll release Snap! 12 on June 1, 2026, with new ways to live-program AI. Check out the beta test version now snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev and let us know of any issues forum.snap.berkeley.edu/t/snap-v12-b...

Super excited about today’s launch of our MOOC “Get Coding with Snap! - Building up to AI”. 18 all new video lectures spanning 3 weeks, with classroom-ready exercises & quizzes. Free & open to all at SAP Learning: learning.sap.com/learning-jou...

Obsessing with Bernat about the catenary curve today, and experimenting with a naive emergent particle-constraint simulation in Snap! snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.ht...

The FOSS community rocks: Snap! v12 beta just got a massive Chinese translation update including the blocks, the UI and all of the extensions and libraries, making Chinese one of the best supported languages in Snap! snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...

Yes, computers helped to crack the enigma (we did hear about that at length) but also greatly supported the Nazi regime, for example by selling 1.5 billion punch cards and corresponding machines for censuses. How can it be that CS never discusses this history? www.felienne.nl/2026-10/#tec...

Last night at SAP HQ in Walldorf I first tested the development version of a new image composition extension for Snap! out in the wild with our campus ambassadors. Try it yourself! snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/g...

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact

Some of you may remember the Apple ads that emphasized the computer as a “bicycle for the mind.” (From GenAI is not like a bicycle for the mind. Instead, it’s more like an automobile. I’m finding t…

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I’m super excited about making first-class-ness first-class in Snap! v12: Create abstract data types (ADTs) and domain-specific languages (DSLs) with dynamic, graphical widgets for data structures ranging from fractions and shapes to melodies, data bases and neural networks.

Going to SIGCSE TS next week? Consider attending our tutorial session: A Hands-on and Interactive Introduction to the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence using Snap!, and our BOF: A Community of Snap! Educators – New Features and Tools for Teaching AI sigcse2026.sigcse.org/details/sigc...

Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p...

Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI

I have written several blog posts about the different ways to implement Media Computation in introductory programming courses. We built JES at Georgia Tech in 2002 and the final release was in 2020…

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Some pictures from our workshops during @fosdem.org junior.

I loved the energy in the Create‑a‑Critter workshop at #FosdemJunior #fosdem Children explored @turtlestitch.bsky.social coding and decorated a colourful range of imaginative critters (with a little help from their parents). @fosdem.org My #TurtleStitch resources: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch

Kudos to the #FOSDEM team, my talk “Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!” from last Sunday in Brussels is already online: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

FOSDEM 2026 - Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!

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Enjoying @jmoenig.bsky.social musical workshop at #Fosdem #Fosdemjunior using Snap!

Heading to #FOSDEM this weekend? I’ll be giving a talk about neural networks in Snap! on Sunday in the Educational Devroom and hang out with kids and teachers at @fosdem Jr.: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... Don’t hesitate to approach me to chat about Snap!, blocks programming or the state of CSEd!

FOSDEM 2026 - Jens Mönig

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land of bribe checks and extortion balances

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

Look, Ma: The latest issue of @acm.org INROADS Magazine features an interview with me. It’s open-access, so you can read up on my incoherent blabberings and old-dude anecdotes about block based programming & friends. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

January - named after Janus, one of Rome‘s oldest and most popular deities, looking both back and forward, the god of change which they aptly put on their … change! #HappyNewYear