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9890
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Overview

Alexander Repenning is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields such as Computer Science Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist has contributed to a range of topics including Teaching and Learning Programming, Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms, Open Education and E-Learning, E-Learning and Knowledge Management, Educational Games and Gamification, and Digital Games and Media.

Alexander Repenning's recent papers include the following:

  • "Explicative programming," 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • "Die ersten 1000: Computational Thinking als obligatorische Ausbildung für Primarschullehrpersonen in der Schweiz," 2020, MedienPädagogik Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung
  • "From TikTok to Hard Fun," 2025, Constructionism Conference Proceedings
  • "Draw Your Own Game," 2025, Constructionism Conference Proceedings

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Ashok Basawapatna, Nora Escherle, and Anna Lamprou.

Their work has been published mainly in venues such as:

  • Constructionism Conference Proceedings
  • Communications of the ACM
  • MedienPädagogik Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung

Best Publications

  • Scalable game design and the development of a checklist for getting computational thinking into public schools

    Alexander Repenning;David Webb;Andri Ioannidou

  • Agentsheets: a medium for creating domain-oriented visual languages

    A. Repenning;T. Sumner

  • Developing educational software components

    J. Roschelle;C. DiGiano;M. Koutlis;A. Repenning

  • Scalable Game Design: A Strategy to Bring Systemic Computer Science Education to Schools through Game Design and Simulation Creation

    Alexander Repenning;David C. Webb;Kyu Han Koh;Hilarie Nickerson

  • Recognizing computational thinking patterns

    Ashok Basawapatna;Kyu Han Koh;Alexander Repenning;David C. Webb

  • Towards the Automatic Recognition of Computational Thinking for Adaptive Visual Language Learning

    Kyu Han Koh;Ashok Basawapatna;Vicki Bennett;Alexander Repenning

  • Agentsheets: a tool for building domain-oriented dynamic, visual environments

    Alexander Repenning

  • AgentSheets: End-User Programmable Simulations.

    Alexander Repenning;Andri Ioannidou;John Zola

  • Tactile programming: a unified manipulation paradigm supporting program comprehension, composition and sharing

    A. Repenning;J. Ambach

  • Using scalable game design to teach computer science from middle school to graduate school

    Ashok R. Basawapatna;Kyu Han Koh;Alexander Repenning

  • Agentsheets: a tool for building domain-oriented visual programming environments

    Alex Repenning

  • The zones of proximal flow: guiding students through a space of computational thinking skills and challenges

    Ashok R. Basawapatna;Alexander Repenning;Kyu Han Koh;Hilarie Nickerson

  • What Makes End-User Development Tick? 13 Design Guidelines

    Alexander Repenning;Andri Ioannidou

  • Computational Thinking Patterns.

    Andri Ioannidou;Vicki Bennett;Alexander Repenning;Kyu Han Koh

  • AgentSheets: an Interactive Simulation Environment with End-User Programmable Agents

    Alexander Repenning

  • Using components for rapid distributed software development

    A. Repenning;A. Ioannidou;M. Payton;Wenming Ye

  • LEGOsheets: a rule-based programming, simulation and manipulation environment for the LEGO Programmable Brick

    J. Gindling;A. Ioannidou;J. Loh;O. Lokkebo

  • AgentCubes: Incremental 3D end-user development

    Andri Ioannidou;Alexander Repenning;David C. Webb

  • Toward an emergent theory of broadening participation in computer science education

    David C. Webb;Alexander Repenning;Kyu Han Koh

  • Agent-based end-user development

    Alexander Repenning;Andri Ioannidou

  • Agentsheets: A Medium for Creating Domain-Oriented Languages.

    Alexander Repenning;Tamara Sumner

Frequent Co-Authors

Clayton Lewis
Clayton Lewis University of Colorado Boulder
Jeremy Roschelle
Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado Boulder
Brad A. Myers
Brad A. Myers Carnegie Mellon University
Volker Wulf
Volker Wulf University of Siegen
Michael W. Klymkowsky
Michael W. Klymkowsky University of Colorado Boulder
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley
Andrew P. Dove
Andrew P. Dove University of Birmingham

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