[IAEP] DesignBlocks

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

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

This would certainly be a better point of departure and further incentive to
breath some life into making Sugar more friendly to non-Python projects.

-walter


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> Gonzalo
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> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team
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>> It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which
>> is Java-based) to Sugar.
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>> -walter
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>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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