MarblePunk - Documentation And Teaching Material

This paper describes the Pinocchioverse, a shared universe – just like the MCU, the Potterverse or the Universe of Star Trek – for learning incremental programming. The idea is that by hearing stories about the Pinocchioverse and making exercises out of it, pupils learn basic ideas of computer science and programming. The fictional universe of the Pinochioverse implicitly defines “MarblePunk”, a fictional programming language in which imperative programs can be build with marble tracks. It tries to bridge the gap between imperative programming and literature, and by that lower the threshold to get into actual imperative programming.