Bio

Joan Guillén (1975, Barcelona) has worked as a tech teacher in secondary school since 1999. Nowadays he is working in innovation and teacher training for the Education Department of Catalonia.

For years he has been involved in the development of educational telematic environments (Intranet project, Zikula CMS, Moodle LMS) and since 2016 he is part of the Snap4Arduino team, focusing this dedication in Computer Science teaching, programming and robotics. He is a Snap4Arduino developer and a Snap! active collaborator.

Snap! is a visual, drag-and-drop programming language, an extended reimplementation of Scratch, with first class objects, suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school and college students.

Snap4Arduino is a Snap! implementation, adding a web server and a management of Arduino boards features, that allow you to address all kinds of Computer Science projects and so, a perfect tool to teach CS and all its branches: algorithms and programming, robotics and electronics, IoT, bigdata, simulations…