In an interview with Mitchel Resnick, who leads the group at MIT that develops Scratch, Amanda Sandler, CS First Program Manager asked Mitchell to explain main new features of the new Scratch 3.0 ...

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 ...

Unlike 2D visual programming languages, which are limited to top-down execution of instructions, POPO's 3D block structure executes instructions from the top-down and from the center-out. This ...

Google has released a completely visual programming ... language. At which point everyone will be able to tell a computer what to do." Fraser says that Blocky is designed to replace the "blocks ...

Scratch and other visual programming languages rely on a shape-based system that Resnick characterizes as the "Lego approach," that's much more intuitive for beginners. "With blocks, you use the ...

Even when building the simplest of applications, you can spend hours---indeed days---in front of a computer, coding in some arcane programming language ... develop new blocks based on this ...

With the Block-based Editor, which is also new ... Users create simple sequences in a few minutes with this visual code editor, without having to know the syntax of a specific programming language.

To bring the focus back to Anki’s target market — kids — today the company is releasing a visual coding component ... s built off MIT’s Scratch programming language. Anki claims that ...