Reflections on Component Computing from the Boxer Project's Perspective

The Boxer Project conducted the research that led to the synthetic review "Issues in Component Computing." This brief essay provides a platform from which to develop our general perspective on educational computing and how it relates to components. The two most important lines of our thinking are (1) the goal to open technology's creative possibilities to the broadest range of people possible, and (2) to do so on the basis of a single architecture, a computational medium, that includes the possibility of constructing and modifying interactive, dynamic constructions by all participants.