[IAEP] DesignBlocks

Gonzalo Odiard gonzalo at laptop.org
Sun Jun 5 21:14:20 EDT 2011


There are a version of Processing implemented in Javascript.
Also this project have a nicer UI :)

Gonzalo


On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Bernie Innocenti
>> Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team
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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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