Drag and drop programming

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For a long time, I have been wanting to create a language that uses the Blockly-like system of dragging and dropping. I have no idea as to where to start, so it seemed logical, to me at least, to use this forum. So how did Google create Blockly? And could you tell me?

[Beka Westberg]

Hello, and thank you for your question :D

If you want to create a visual programming language, you probably don't want to create something like Blockly. You probably want to *use* Blockly!

From the dev site home page: "The Blockly library adds an editor to your app that represents coding concepts as interlocking blocks. It outputs syntactically correct code in the programming language of your choice. Custom blocks may be created to connect to your own application."

There are people that use Blockly to create CS curriculum, exploratory coding environments for kids, interfaces to configure web stores, encode laws, automate factory processes, etc. So if you want to create a blocks-based programming language, whatever the domain may be, Blockly can probably handle it =)

To get started learning about how to use Blockly, you can check out our getting started codelab, as well as our developer docs.

I hope that helps! If you have any further questions please reply!
--Beka

On Fri, May 6, 2022 at 8:14 AM No comment <woodenwa...@gmail.com> wrote:

For a long time, I have been wanting to create a language that uses the Blockly-like system of dragging and dropping. I have no idea as to where to start, so it seemed logical, to me at least, to use this forum. So how did Google create Blockly? And could you tell me?

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