Nearly two years ago, I wrote about Google’s App Inventor. Unfortunately, Google discontinued it in December of last year (though, happily, MIT now maintains it). Recently, Google released Blockly, ...

Ozobot, a tiny augmented reality robot that introduces kids to simple programming, is receiving an upgrade with Ozobot Bit. The new Ozobots use a customized block-based programming editor called ...

Over the years, Google has released many open-sourced projects to aid developers in coding for their platforms. One such project is called Blockly, an open source library for building drag-and-drop ...

Alice is a programming language and environment suitable for kids aged 10 and above. It introduces them to the world of computer programming through a 3D interactive platform. With Alice, children can ...

MIT is teaming up with Google to create the next generation of its popular visual programming language "Scratch." The partners are working on an open source version of the language called "Scratch ...

The Google doodle team partnered with the Google Blockly team and MIT researchers to create "Coding with Carrots," its first-ever coding-game doodle. Google is marking the 50th anniversary of kids ...

The Pyxel can be programmed using Python or a graphical programming language called Blockly (Fig. 2). Both provide full access to the movement, controls, and sensors, but Python provides a more ...