Initial version of Blocks for CodeWorld

[Stefan J]

Hi everyone,

An early version of the block based environment for CodeWorld is now live at: code.world/blocks.

Currently simple CodeWorld applications can be built (mostly pictures).

It supports the following features currently:

• Drag-and-drop blocks onto the canvas, which can be snapped into each other to build programs
• Loading and saving of projects, sharing of projects with the URL.
• Generating code, and running simple Code World applications
• Simple validation and error feedback.

There is some support for polymorphic blocks (if-then-else blocks and so on) and let definitions as well.

A simple example application from Chris can be found here.

[Timothee Besset]

Great stuff. The kids latched on to it immediately: https://code.world/blocks#PIzUKxgNK5PTklN8e4O7rKA ;-)

[Tom Davies]

Very cool -- seems to work better in Chrome than Safari, by the way.

[Timothee Besset]

We couldn't figure out how to animate though, this is as close as we could get:

https://gyazo.com/1aefad0d25f330de2c7748d588283eb2

[Tom Davies]

On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 01:26:36 UTC+10, Timothee Besset wrote:

We couldn't figure out how to animate though, this is as close as we could get:

https://gyazo.com/1aefad0d25f330de2c7748d588283eb2

Look in the 'Definitions' tab and you'll find a 'turning' block you can use as a parameter of animationOf

e.g. https://code.world/blocks#PhStRW0Y6abDd6lcWxodv9w (if that's publicly visible)