Snap! Usage Data for Machine Learning

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Hello,

My name is Eric Stein. I am currently working with University of Virginia professors @richnguyen and @glenbull to train a machine learning model that can analyze the actions of beginner programmers and offer suggestions. The language these programmers would use is Snap! Thus, to do so, we would need a way to access the usage data of an instance of Snap! that we have running on our server. Such data would preferably include the following:

  • blocks created/deleted
  • blocks connected
  • blocks clicked

Is there a way to listen for such events or get access to the undo/redo stack on our local Snap! instance, perhaps via the addMessageListenerForAll method for a Snap! IDE?

Thank you.

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We have similar goals and have been using iSnap

Here's the Github source: https://github.com/thomaswp/iSnap

It is a Snap! version 5 - dev (a bit old) but we've been using it successfully.

It you end up creating some analyse tools you want to share be sure to announce it here

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toontalk,

Thanks for the resources. Will do.