Microsoft TouchDevelop
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#2Here's the landing page: https://www.touchdevelop.com/
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#3Just played around with it a little bit!
Super interesting, can certainly see a couple of applicable use cases! The way the tutorials are setup will actually be handy for education, certainly if it would be possible to create your own tutorial.
Edit: Typo
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#4I'm glad all the MSFT research initiatives are getting attention and/or the development stage. There's so much new amazing things to make the future so shiny and great.
As Steve Jobs pointed out, MSFT's overall design and communications have and are still... astoundingly nerdy. Yet this new MSFT, one that notes they made something with WUV!, is such a departure from Micro$oft of yore.
This is almost... dare I say, embryonic of an earnest attempt at something new? Almost as if this new MSFT is a startup of a corporation in a landscape dominated by the most valuable corporation on earth (AAPL) and the most useful corporation on earth (GOOG) and the most cutthroat corporation on earth (AMZN).
I imagine in another year or two there will be a major overhaul of Microsoft's design process to bring about cohesion. I'm hoping the likes of hiring Andrew Kim (http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2012/7/3/the-next-micro...) and other young talents will greatly influence that as it is sorely needed, much like how Google invested much into Matías Duarte and Material design.
Wow, imagine that. When the old question was can Apple be Google faster than Google can be Apple and now it's can Microsoft be Google faster?
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#5This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long long time. If I remember correctly Microsoft released something similar for Windows Phone but the UI was really clunky. This version (?) is amazing though, so much better.
I've just spent 10 minutes playing around and building a simple app sat on my sofa, I highly recommend spending a little bit of time using this.
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#6This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long long time. If I remember correctly Microsoft released something similar for Windows Phone but the UI was really clunky. This version (?) is amazing though, so much better. I've just spent 10 minutes playing around and building a simple app sat on my sofa, I highly recommend spending a little bit of time using this.
It's the same project that was released for Windows Phone 7. The original name was TouchStudio. It became TouchDevelop around the time Windows Phone 8 came out, IIR.
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#7Here's some info about the language used:
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#8Here's some info about the language used: https://www.touchdevelop.com/docs/language
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#9Microsoft is becoming truly awesome!
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#10I haven't been able to check it out fully yet, but all this hour of code stuff looks amazing!
Being able to launch a little tutorial project right in the browser with videos and all, for free...great job Microsoft!
I'm not a teacher but I can already see the amazing educational potential here. I love helping people who are learning to code, and then watching them complete their first small project on their own, very satisfying; this is a great tool.
Edit: The more I keep looking at this the more excited I get...really great job Microsoft Research!