The Greenfoot Programming Environment

@article{Klling2010TheGP,
  title={The Greenfoot Programming Environment},
  author={Michael K{\"o}lling},
  journal={ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.},
  year={2010},
  volume={10},
  pages={14:1-14:21}
}
  • M. Kölling
  • Published 1 November 2010
  • Computer Science
  • ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.
Greenfoot is an educational integrated development environment aimed at learning and teaching programming. It is aimed at a target audience of students from about 14 years old upwards, and is also suitable for college- and university-level education. Greenfoot combines graphical, interactive output with programming in Java, a standard, text-based object-oriented programming language. This article first describes Greenfoot and then goes on to discuss design goals and motivations, strengths and… 
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