@inproceedings{68cd698ddd444139b2c876980338a7a2,
title = "A dataset of scratch programs: Scraped, shaped and scored",
abstract = "Scratch is increasingly popular, both as an introductory programming language and as a research target in the computing education research field. In this paper, we present a dataset of 250K recent Scratch projects from 100K different authors scraped from the Scratch project repository. We processed the projects' source code and metadata to encode them into a database that facilitates querying and further analysis. We further evaluated the projects in terms of programming skills and mastery, and included the project scoring results. The dataset enables the analysis of the source code of Scratch projects, of their quality characteristics, and of the programming skills that their authors exhibit. The dataset can be used for empirical research in software engineering and computing education.",
keywords = "computing education, dataset, Scratch",
author = "Efthimia Aivaloglou and Felienne Hermans and Jesus Moreno-Leon and Gregorio Robles",
year = "2017",
month = jun,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1109/MSR.2017.45",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "511--514",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2017",
address = "United States",
note = "14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2017 ; Conference date: 20-05-2017 Through 21-05-2017",
}