{"id":286,"date":"2012-08-29T12:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2024-10-12T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T14:25:00","slug":"logo-meets-scratch-thanks-blockly-and-david-wees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrreddy.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/logo-meets-scratch-thanks-blockly-and-david-wees\/","title":{"rendered":"LOGO meets Scratch (thanks Blockly and David Wees)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A while back I wrote about using LOGO as entry route for pupils into programming<\/a>. I guess many of you have been thinking of ways of doing the same. <\/p>\n

One very clever teacher based in Canada, has taken some Google Code called Blockly<\/a> and created a very cool LOGO\/Scratch mash-up<\/a>. (Credit, by the way, to the people behind Blockly.)<\/p>\n

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As if introducing programming and being a teacher wasn’t already hard enough, David Wees decided to tweak the Blockly open-source code and turn it into a nifty fusion of LOGO’s commands and Scratch’s drag-and-snap coding environment.<\/p>\n

It’s way better than anything I’ve seen in terms of entry into programming, for younger pupils in particular. What I like about it is that it’s the perfect launchpad for LOGO proper or Scratch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

David is a regular blogger with a good deal of good things to say. You can find him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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