Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program

Re:Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Rus... by denfromufa on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @10:12PM (#12641150)

Blockly developed by Google is adopted by many educational projects:

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

Go to "Built with Blockly" which includes BBC MicroBit, MIT App Inventor, code.org, LEGO (3rd party), PBS, Minecraft (3rd party), etc.

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Re:Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Rus... by erichocean on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:09AM (#12641496)

Blocky…sucks. Way worse than just learning something like Python.

(And this is someone who's spent most of his professional life working on visual programming systems.)

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Re:Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Rus... by Buetol on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @06:49AM (#12642838)

I've found the Khan academy way to be very efficient for 9-years olds. The main problem with textual languages is that kids mess up with the syntax easily but once they "get it", it's a bliss.

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Re:Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Rus... by denfromufa on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @07:55AM (#12643071)

Can you point to any specific issues? And what would you recommend instead?

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Re:Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Rus... by catscratch on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @03:58AM (#12642200)

It might suck, but it's what kids are learning, since Scratch uses it.

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