Brian Keith Harvey (born 1949) is a former Lecturer SOE of

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. He and his students developed an educational

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named

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which is free and open-source software, a

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of the language

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, as an interpreter, for learners.

Education

He received his B.S. in

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(MIT), 1969, a M.S. in

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, 1975, and a Ph.D. in science and mathematics

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, 1985. He also received a M.A. in

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, 1990.

Work

Until retiring in July 2013, Harvey taught introductory (lower-division) computer science courses at Berkeley, and ''CS 195, Social Implications of Computing''. He was also involved in the development of the language Logo for the use in K-12 education. Together with the German programmer Jens Mönig, Harvey designed the programming language ''Build Your Own Blocks'' (BYOB), and its successor

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, an extended version of the language Scratch, which added higher-order functions and true

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for first-class sprites. With ''CS10, The Beauty and Joy of Computing'' at Berkeley he co-established the first course to use BYOB and spread it to other colleges and high schools.

Selected publications

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References

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