Towards a collaborative taxonomy of Tools, Languages and Environments in K-12 Computing Education

Agnese Addone, Vittorio Scarano, Carmine Spagnuolo

Abstract: In this Work-in-Progress paper we present a preliminary study and the design of a taxonomy of Tools, Languages and Environments (TLE) employed in K-12 Computing Education, in schools and outreach programs. The research provides an analytical classification model based on a survey of TLEs and on previous related works. It also outlines the collaborative protocol that will allow researchers to share the results of the taxonomy on a public repository. An analysis of the most common platforms where contributors can work collaboratively is presented to show the qualitative process of identification and choice of GitHub as the most reliable one.