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• A shortage of teachers for computer science classes in California

  The issue with Alice is that graphical, block based coding is not at all an ergonomic way to code. Sure, C++ probably isn't the best for an intro CS courses, either, but even just Python with some wrappers over SDL to draw sprites is not only a better teaching tool it's also forms a more useful springboard to build other projects. Graphical, block based coding seems to be a common attempt to make coding more... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• ⚧︎ Super Smash Siblings Trans

  Unless it would contradict canon, every stage is very bright, highly interactive, full of pre-placed items, and so huge that you can usually run from your NPC opponents and enjoy exploring the stage in peace while they catch up to you. All buildings have Linux computers with actual internet access that allow you to program and print out your own projectiles/books/flags/UNO reverse cards/shinigami eyes/soupcans/cis... Source: 8 months ago

• Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children

  If your kids tinker with Scratch, try out TurboWarp[1], a Scratch mod that compiles projects to JavaScript. Other alternatives to tinker with are Blocky[2] and Snap[3]. 1. https://turbowarp.org 2. https://developers.google.com/blockly/ 3. https://snap.berkeley.edu. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• (Free) Visual Scripting Game Engine

  Google made bockly It works with 5 languages. I think #C PHP and JavaScript. I know JavaScript for sure . But not sure about the others. blockly. Source: about 1 year ago

• Am I wrong?

  And as a corollary, Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly. Source: about 1 year ago

• coding

  Https://developers.google.com/blockly (Block programming, very good with helping learn the logic). Source: over 1 year ago

• To be learned before or after Python?

  Another block environment Blockly does compile to Javascript, and you can add your own block sets and use it in your existing webapp as a sort of workflow programming tool. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: S/W development text editor have feature colorizing every iteration?

  ** https://developers.google.com/blockly. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting

  Huh, I wonder it is possible to just do visual editor on top of gdscript instead similar to https://developers.google.com/blockly/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Interesting examples of visual programming?

  For an idea of what a library of programming units looks like, there's Google's Blockly (descended from Scratch) https://developers.google.com/blockly. Source: over 1 year ago

• I've created Sequential Workflow Designer in pure Typescript

  This is just a generic web component. You may take it and create what you want. Here a few ideas: * fullscreen * image filter * live testing * particles Basically, I would say, if are you creating a no-code app, that kind of a component is mandatory. On the market you can find some alternatives like Blockly. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there any research or articles on different, more efficient compiler designs?

  Why text as the input? Humans like text. Scratch/Blockly might be said not to have a parser. Simple LISPs' parsers can be trivial to the point of feeling more like deserialization than parsing. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Discord's default profile pictures have a fun secret

  Haha I had that same idea once! I used Google's Blockly, but I never finished it. Hopefully yours goes better than mine! Source: almost 2 years ago

• How do I start a learn-to-code program without knowing how to code myself?

  Or use Processing.org or Blocky](https://developers.google.com/blockly) Processing is pretty easy to explain the basics and make images with code, but I suggest making a colour cheat sheet. Source: about 2 years ago

• Kerbal Space Program 2: Episode 5 - Interstellar Travel

  Simple manoeuvrers could be just given but for something like suicide burn you'd have to go and program it. Either in some simple programming language or maybe something like Blockly. Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you make a NoCode/LowCode application?

  Blockly is an example of no-code app that generates code. It is a good starting point to understand how you can build a no code framework. Blockly is... https://developers.google.com/blockly High level concepts 1. A workspace. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Engineering Management and Teaching Computer Science Education with Dave Bock

  And after we're done with that, they've seen the program they've written. It's a drag and drop like Scratch, Blockly, they call it. You can't make a syntax error. Well, I showed them a Connect Four program I wrote. We played Connect Four, and it handily beat a whole fifth-grade class. And I'm projecting the code up on the screen and talking them through it. And I'm saying, "Well, look, there's a lot more of it.... - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• developing a (limited) visual programming language

  By what you described, the closest existing library according to what you need is Blockly (by Google), where you can create custom blocks, structure the "flow" of your script visually with the building blocks you pre-configured and then have the output in any supported language (JavaScript, Python...). Source: over 2 years ago

• Any programming languages similar to scratch but more serious as an actual programming language?

  Google's Blockly is a tool that can help bridge the gap between block based coding and conventional text based languages. It enables you to create code using a block based interface similar to Scratch while simultaneously showing you what the equivalent code is in many of the languages mentioned in this thread (Python, JavaScript, Lua, etc). Source: over 2 years ago

• Portal is using Google Blockly

  I did some snooping and found reference to https://developers.google.com/blockly in Portal. Source: over 2 years ago

• Contributing to blockly!

  Blockly is a visual programming language, mainly used to generate code into other programming languages, like JavaScript, PHP, Lua, etc. If you have heard of Scratch, well, then you probably know how blockly will look like and work. If you are not sure, you can always check the demo! - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago