The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch Blocks" based on Blockly, Google's own visual programming code. It will teach kids how to code by using blocks ...

Google has released a completely visual programming language that lets you ... "Users can drag blocks together to build an application," reads the description on Google's site.

Also called a "GUI builder," visual programming tools allow the user interface elements to be dragged, dropped and resized the way objects are drawn in graphics programs. Traditional source code ...

They learned visual, block coding using the website Code.org. So instead of writing commands typically done in computer programming, the nonprofit website offers drag-and-drop blocks to do ...