Pencil code

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Post by xiaq » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 1:34 PM UTC

Re: Pencil code

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Post by flipp3r » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 1:56 PM UTC

Is this made with Blockly ( https://developers.google.com/blockly/ ) or a copy of it? There's already many sites using blockly to learn to code, the example linked looks much like a copy of Google's Maze example https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?lang=en

Re: Pencil code

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Post by azurelogic » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

At first glance, this looks like a modern implementation of Logo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29

Re: Pencil code

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Post by paines » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

Maybe https://scratch.mit.edu/

Re: Pencil code

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Post by xiaq » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:05 PM UTC

flipp3r wrote: post #2

Is this made with Blockly ( https://developers.google.com/blockly/ ) or a copy of it? There's already many sites using blockly to learn to code, the example linked looks much like a copy of Google's Maze example https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?lang=en

The block editor is Droplet: https://github.com/PencilCode/droplet. The author of Pencil Code has a good paper which outlined the history of block editors: http://ideas.pencilcode.net/home/htmlcss/droplet-paper.pdf.

Re: Pencil code

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Post by xiaq » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

For anyone wondering about the similarity of the block editor (called Droplet) with Blockly, Scatch, etc., the author of Pencil Code has a good paper on Droplet and previous work: http://ideas.pencilcode.net/home/htmlcss/droplet-paper.pdf

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Post by yagyu » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:19 PM UTC

I thought of http://pencil-code.nordita.org (large scale academic finite-difference solver for magnetohydrodynamics, applications for solar dynamics, supernovas etc)

(no affiliation, I just work in a related area)

Re: Pencil code

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Post by Dorian-Marie » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

Pretty awesome, you can write functions, use variables, etc... This is how I always wanted Scratch to be, thanks.

Re: Pencil code

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

> Learn professional programming languages using an editor that lets you work in either blocks or text.

I was hoping this would be a visual editor for existing mainstream languages (Python, JS, PHP, C#, etc.). Sadly it isn't, but this makes me want to make one.

Re: Pencil code

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Post by xiaq » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 3:12 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #9

> Learn professional programming languages using an editor that lets you work in either blocks or text. I was hoping this would be a visual editor for existing mainstream languages (Python, JS, PHP, C#, etc.). Sadly it isn't, but this makes me want to make one.

It is, for JavaScript and CoffeeScript. Additional adapters can also be created. Read http://ideas.pencilcode.net/home/htmlcss/droplet-paper.pdf :)