Microsoft have done some great and totally ignored work with embedding visual languages into game engines for kids - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/project

Microsoft have done some great and totally ignored work with embedding visual languages into game engines for kids - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/ http://welcome.projectspark.com/ http://welcome.projectspark.com/ Wrt to Code Lauren you may also be interested in http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/index.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/index.html - a HCI approach to tooling (the WhyLine is my favourite). Dog hasn't released much info yet but it's an interesting concept - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2502026 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2502026 https://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/social-computing https://www.media.mit.edu/research/groups/social-computing Program synthesis is really interesting area of research eg http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/ VPRI has already been mentioned but I'd like to highlight their work on Programming as Planning - http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009001_prog_as.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009001_prog_as.pdf From the last FPW, there were a couple of projects that really stood out for me: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/ http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/bayesdb/ http://2015.splashcon.org/event/fpw2015-an-end-user-programming-environment-that-s-cell-based-copy-paste-friendly-with-a-flat-and-forward-execution-model http://2015.splashcon.org/event/fpw2015-an-end-user-programm... Also not really a new language, but Sam Aarons work on Sonic Pi is pedagogically interesting - http://sonic-pi.net/ http://sonic-pi.net/