Blockly Classroom Environment?

[Samuel Langford]

Hi all,

I teach high school and a lot of my students are having trouble with learning both the syntax and the concepts of programming. I know that are platforms that use blockly (such as code.org), but they all seem to have specific blocks that you can only use within their program. 

I was wondering if anyone has made a blockly app specifically made for the classroom? Or, if there's someone who has like a good template/starter I could use? I don't have a ton of free time to program my own from scratch unfortunately. This is my first year teaching and it's kicking my butt.

Thanks! 

[Léo Briand]

Hi, what do you mean by an app made for the classroom? 

Which kind of features are you looking for? 

I'm the ceo of Vittascience and we're trying to make Blockly for the classroom, but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for. 

Here is the site if you want to have a look : https://en.vittascience.com

Best, 

Léo 

[Neil Fraser]

Blockly has a general-purpose code sandbox which allows a wide range of generic blocks to be used.  The results are visible as JavaScript, Python, PHP, Lua, or Dart.  It is also multi-lingual, can save and load programs from the cloud, and can execute code:

https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/code/index.html

Although it was intended as a demo for developers, it is unexpectedly being used by a lot of schools.  We'd like to know more about how it is being used, so that we can adapt it as a proper scholastic application.  Take a look at it, and let us know what we can do to better support you.

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[Mark Friedman]

MIT App Inventor, which uses Blockly, was developed for use by educators.  It has a bunch of teaching materials developed for it, many of which you can find here.

-Mark