[IAEP] DesignBlocks

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 23:45 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Bernie Innocenti
> > <bernie at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> >         A replacement for Scratch written in JavaScript /
> >         ActionScript:
> >
> >
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evhan55/designblocks-visual-programming-for-artists
> >
> >         Looks promising, and the author is in Cambridge MA, where I
> >         live. Does
> >         anyone know her?
> >
> >
> > No, but she's a former member of the Scratch team at the Media Lab.
> > "JavaScript" is a bit misleading; her software is written in flash.
>
> indeed, but the KickStarter entry also reads:
>
>  However, in order for DesignBlocks to become more robust and complete,
>  it needs more features, plenty of bug fixes and it needs to be ported
>  to JavaScript/HTML5 (for mobile access). This summer, I'd like to work
>  on DesignBlocks to get it to a suitable state for widespread testing.
>
> Doesn't it sound reasonable? I'd like to get in contact with Evelyn
> Eastmond to ask how she's planning to make it happen, and if she'd like
> to work with the Sugar community to package DesignBlocks as an activity.
>
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It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is
Java-based) to Sugar.

-walter

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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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