Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread Richmond
isual programming paradigm that makes it easy to grasp programming fundamentals. Under the hood they're quite different beasts: Blockly is written entirely in JavaScript and runs in the browser - nothing to download or install. And the export functions are a nice touch. This all is r

Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread Mark Wieder
easy to grasp programming fundamentals. Under the hood they're quite different beasts: Blockly is written entirely in JavaScript and runs in the browser - nothing to download or install. And the export functions are a nice touch. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@a

Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread Richmond
ebody pinched something from somebody else? A quick compare and contrast exercise will raise a few eyebrows: https://code.google.com/p/google-blockly/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ It was the image in the top-left-hand corner of the Blockly page that raised my hackles straight away. So, what you are s

Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread david j downs
Scratch is principally funded by a National Science Foundation grant. The expectation is that the results of projects funded by government grants are to be made freely available for public use. J. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread Kee Nethery
lse? > > A quick compare and contrast exercise will raise a few eyebrows: > > https://code.google.com/p/google-blockly/ > > http://scratch.mit.edu/ > > It was the image in the top-left-hand corner of the Blockly page that r

Re: Blockly

2012-05-19 Thread Richmond
On 05/20/2012 08:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Blockly was released into the wild at 9AM today. I spent a good amount of time talking with the developer at the Maker Faire. Open source block-oriented extensible visual programming, exports to JavaScript, etc... soon to have Google docs

Blockly

2012-05-19 Thread Mark Wieder
All- Blockly was released into the wild at 9AM today. I spent a good amount of time talking with the developer at the Maker Faire. Open source block-oriented extensible visual programming, exports to JavaScript, etc... soon to have Google docs spreadsheet api access, looks like much fun. https