Thanks a lot Ricardo, seems pretty interesting... I have stared it on GitHub.
Cheers, Offray On 23/1/19 11:10, Ricardo Moran wrote: > Hi everybody, > > We are very pleased to announce the first pre-release of UziScript > (https://github.com/GIRA/UziScript), a new programming environment for > educational robotics. > > For a long time we've been wanting to show you what we are working on > at GIRA (http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/) and although we're still far > from finished we've decided it's time to share our little project with > the community. > > As some of you may know we work mostly on developing tools to > facilitate the use of robots for education. We published Physical > Etoys as part of that work. Now we are working on a new programming > environment that attempts to fix some common problems we see in most > of the tools available for educational robotics. > We call this environment UziScript and it consists of a small VM that > runs on an Arduino, a web server that runs on your computer, and a set > of web tools that use the web server to connect and program the > Arduino. We're focusing on Arduino UNO for now (mainly because it's > very popular and accessible) but we plan to support other boards in > the future. > > UziScript has a few cool features: > > * *Block-based and text-based programming*: It includes a > block-based programming language suitable for beginners but it > also supports text-based programming for more advanced users. To > ease the transition UziScript automatically generates the textual > code from the blocks (and viceversa). > * *Concurrency*: Most educational robotics projects require the > implementation of a device that performs two or more simultaneous > tasks. UziScript allows the definition of concurrent tasks that > will be executed independently from each other. > * *Autonomy*: UziScript programs are stored and executed > autonomously in the Arduino without requiring a connection to the > computer. > * *Interactive programming*: If the board is connected to the > computer UziScript allows to inspect and monitor the program state > while it runs. Furthermore, every change made to the program can > be automatically compiled and transmitted to the Arduino, which > allows to see the effects of the change almost immediately. > * *Debugging*: Without debugging tools the process of fixing > programming errors can be frustrating for an inexperienced user. > UziScript's debugger provides mechanisms for error handling and > step-by-step code execution. > > All the code is open source and can be found on Github: > https://github.com/GIRA/UziScript. We also made a few short videos to > show UziScript in > action: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1aXD47455XPWv4rTXQBuHvamCoNUGeke > > We're still not ready to use this with actual teachers and students > (we have a LOT of bugs and unfinished features) but we think we're > ready to show this to other programmers. > You can download and try our first pre-release > (https://github.com/GIRA/UziScript/releases/tag/v0.1.1). We would > greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions. > > Have fun! > Richo
