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The web-based visual programming editor.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2014-12-15 · latest 2023-02-01

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  1. It's just a branding wrapper of Blockly, which has been around since 2012: https://github.com/google/blockly and https://developers.google.com/blockly/publications/publicati... I don't really care for these edutech companies that camp on…
  2. …on Google Blockly [0]. The university project I was thinking of was MIT App Inventor [1]. [0]: https://github.com/google/blockly [1]: https://appinventor.mit.edu/
  3. …about that time it was close approaching what I would consider "useable" for actual real work. [0] https://github.com/google/blockly
  4. Probably it's made with the same technology used to build Scratch, namely Blocky ( https://github.com/google/blockly )
  5. …open source[1]. Scratch looks like Blockly because Scratch is now written with Blockly :) [1] https://github.com/google/blockly
  6. …ched.gse.harvard.edu/resources/scratch-curriculu... 2) Blockly seems to be under the Apache license ( https://github.com/google/blockly )