Ruth Leopold and Neil Fraser Demonstrating Blockly

You can use blockly to define new blocks,... 

This was listed on YouTube on 2 December, 2016. That was over a year before I started going about how someone should do something just like this! And such is Google, I didn't get to hear about it until 8 years had passed. So much for recommendations! Google: mission is failing hopelessly. See Alice's Adventures on the Internet, Continued, ...

She's really smart!


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Here's his "The Making of,..."  video: ten years of Blockly history: 

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2018 Google talk which shows that they don't see you can go up: witness the discussion about palettes and themes at the end (16:10). Those are just varous different languages for describing sets of colours. And you need another language to connect different sets of colours to different syntactic constructs.

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Now look what the people at YouTube have done. If you pause a video to read some screen text then it dims the display and so you can stop it moving, but you can't see it properly. I guess nobody thinks that people might want to pause a video and look at the image. 



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