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Google's Blockly Games

61 points by antichaos 12y ago

tsmith 12y ago
The maze game is awesome. Unfortunately it seems the game has gone over quota...
alphabetam 12y ago
Really nice.
zorbash 12y ago
Seems inspired by http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted which is definitely worth a look.
- michel-slm 12y ago
  MIT Scratch is amazing. Much better as an educational tool than CMU Alice -- its 3D-without-gravity environment is unnecessarily complicated yet inaccurate.
mapleoin 12y ago
This reminds me of the OLPC games. They had the same mechanics and probably also using the scratch programming language.
staunch 12y ago
Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.
- chii 12y ago
  google ought to give this project more free quotas - it's an excellent showcase of a web-application.
- solocshaw 12y ago
  Same here.
- NeilFraser 12y ago
  Sorry, fixed. We got an unexpected avalanche of interest overnight.
marcosscriven 12y ago
Reminds me of playing with LOGO turtles in primary school, waaaay back in 1982.
- kokey 12y ago
  Your comment made me find this http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ and I lost a bit of time there.
mcav 12y ago
The interface seems unnecessarily confusing and unintuitive, though the ideas are worthwhile.
- marcosscriven 12y ago
  Personally I thought it was pretty good functionally.
mariokostelac 12y ago
This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later. :)
couchand 12y ago
If you're interested in using this yourself or just frustrated that you can't see it, check out the library that it's built with, Blockly. It's a really neat way to introduce people to programming, and you can also use it for "real" applications. At my previous job we talked about (but never implemented) a business workflow application using it. https://code.google.com/p/blockly/ https://code.google.com/p/blockly/
acbart 12y ago
I'm surprised no one's been talking about Blockly's educational applications. My professor and I are using it in a course this fall for non-majors, to get them scaffolded through their first coding experience. After all, it lets you generate Python code directly.
arikrak 12y ago
Hour of Code used Google Blockly to teach kids the very basics of programming: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 It would be interesting to create a full course to teach anyone all the fundamentals of programming without any syntax. They could switch to python or javascript when their ready. However, Google Blockly only seems to support the vary basic control structures of programming but not more advanced parts such as Classes.
skynetv2 12y ago
the turtle looks like logo language.

61 points by antichaos 12y ago

tsmith 12y ago

The maze game is awesome. Unfortunately it seems the game has gone over quota...

alphabetam 12y ago

Really nice.

zorbash 12y ago

Seems inspired by http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tip_bar=getStarted which is definitely worth a look.

michel-slm 12y ago
MIT Scratch is amazing. Much better as an educational tool than CMU Alice -- its 3D-without-gravity environment is unnecessarily complicated yet inaccurate.

mapleoin 12y ago

This reminds me of the OLPC games. They had the same mechanics and probably also using the scratch programming language.

staunch 12y ago

Over Quota This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.

chii 12y ago
google ought to give this project more free quotas - it's an excellent showcase of a web-application.
solocshaw 12y ago
Same here.
NeilFraser 12y ago
Sorry, fixed. We got an unexpected avalanche of interest overnight.

marcosscriven 12y ago

Reminds me of playing with LOGO turtles in primary school, waaaay back in 1982.

kokey 12y ago
Your comment made me find this http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/ and I lost a bit of time there.

mcav 12y ago

The interface seems unnecessarily confusing and unintuitive, though the ideas are worthwhile.

marcosscriven 12y ago
Personally I thought it was pretty good functionally.

mariokostelac 12y ago

This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later. :)

couchand 12y ago

If you're interested in using this yourself or just frustrated that you can't see it, check out the library that it's built with, Blockly. It's a really neat way to introduce people to programming, and you can also use it for "real" applications. At my previous job we talked about (but never implemented) a business workflow application using it. https://code.google.com/p/blockly/ https://code.google.com/p/blockly/

acbart 12y ago

I'm surprised no one's been talking about Blockly's educational applications. My professor and I are using it in a course this fall for non-majors, to get them scaffolded through their first coding experience. After all, it lets you generate Python code directly.

arikrak 12y ago

Hour of Code used Google Blockly to teach kids the very basics of programming: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 http://learn.code.org/hoc/1 It would be interesting to create a full course to teach anyone all the fundamentals of programming without any syntax. They could switch to python or javascript when their ready. However, Google Blockly only seems to support the vary basic control structures of programming but not more advanced parts such as Classes.

skynetv2 12y ago

the turtle looks like logo language.