Google's Blockly Games

Google's Blockly Games(blockly-games.appspot.com)

61 points by antichaos 11 years ago | 18 comments

staunch 11 years ago |

  Over Quota
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NeilFraser 11 years ago | |

Sorry, fixed. We got an unexpected avalanche of interest overnight.

chii 11 years ago | |

google ought to give this project more free quotas - it's an excellent showcase of a web-application.

solocshaw 11 years ago | |

Same here.

zorbash 11 years ago |

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

michel-slm 11 years ago | |

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

acbart 11 years 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 11 years ago |

Hour of Code used Google Blockly to teach kids the very basics of programming: 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.

couchand 11 years 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/

mapleoin 11 years ago |

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

mcav 11 years ago |

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

marcosscriven 11 years ago | |

Personally I thought it was pretty good functionally.

mariokostelac 11 years ago |

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

tsmith 11 years ago |

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

marcosscriven 11 years ago |

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

kokey 11 years ago | |

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

skynetv2 11 years ago |

the turtle looks like logo language.

alphabetam 11 years ago |

Really nice.