Franklyn Turbak's Talks

MIT App Inventor:Design and Implementation of a Blocks Programming Language.
Invited talk at Lewis and Clark College. Mar. 6, 2017.
[4up slides] [1up slides]

Taking Stock of Blocks: Promises and Challenges of Blocks Programming Languages.
Keynote talk at VL/HCC 2015 in Atlanta, GA. Oct. 21, 2015.
[abstract] [4up slides] [1up slides] [research questions]

Democratizing Programming with Blocks Languages.
Keynote talk at DMS 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canda. August 31, 2015.
[4up slides] [1up slides]

Using App Inventor in Introductory CS Courses (Panel).
SIGCSE'15 panel with Meimei Gao, Julie Johnson, Dale Reed, Cate Sheller, and Franklyn Turbak (Moderator). Mar. 6, 2014.

Not Just for Novices: Blocks Programming Language Design and Implementation in MIT App Inventor.
Invited talk at the Williams College Computer Science colloquium. Oct. 24, 2014.

The Design of Naming Features in App Inventor 2.
Talk given at VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. Jul. 31, 2014.

Events-First Programming in App Inventor.
Talk given at CCSCNE 2014 at Providence College.

Mobile Computational Thinking in App Inventor 2.
Invited Rhode Island CSTA talk at Rhode Island College. Apr. 10, 2014.

Blocks Languages for Creating Tangible Artifacts.
Talk given at VL/HCC 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria. Oct. 2, 2012.

Blocks Languages for Creating Tangible Artifacts.
Talk given at the New England Programming Languages Seminar (NEPLS), University of Southern Maine. Jun. 1, 2012.

Rapid Prototyping for Everyone!.
Short presentation to the Wellesley College Science Center Summer Research Seminar, Tue. Jun. 21, 2011.

Research Directions in Block-Based Programming Languages.
Short presentation to the Wellesley College Science Center Summer Research Seminar, Tue. Jun. 1, 2010.

Two Views of Programming Languages: Mechanical vs. Linguistic.
Wellesley College Science Center Faculty Seminar, Thu. Apr. 8, 2010.

App Inventor for Android: Graffiti App.
Presented as part of an App Inventor workshop at SIGCSE 2010 in Milwaukee on Fri. Mar. 12, 2010.

Robotic Design Studio: Engineering for Everyone.
Wellesley College alumnae talk, Jun. 2008. (With Robbie Berg.)

Cycle Therapy: Slides for a talk on my Cycle Therapy paper with Joe Wells that I presented at PPDP'01 in Florence on Sep. 7, 2001, and at the New England Programming Languages Seminar on Oct. 5, 2001. I also presented a slightly different version at a Wellesley College computer science colloquium on Nov. 7, 2001.

First-Class Synchronization Barriers
Slides for the ICFP'96 presentation of my ICFP'96 paper.