An educational tool for creating block-based and textual languages that enable programming novices to code in their native languages before transitioning to industry-standard ones such as JavaScript.
- Fully customizable block-based language: Refer to https://developers.google.com/blockly/guides/overview for more information about creating a block-based language and translations to executable JavaScript (and other industry-standard languages)
- Convert blocks from pedagogical language to pure JavaScript blocks.
- Fully customizable text-based language that embeds in JavaScript allowing person to program using a combination of pedagogical code from their own native languages and pure JavaScript. To do this, JavaScript is extended via a library.
- Parser/Evaluator to convert text-based language to block-based language. Production rules of Context-free grammar can be specified in grammar JSON files. Interpretations are specified in block-interpretations.
- Multi-lingual support: Add language constants in msg files.
To test with string function blocks, open exact.html in the browser. For a video with a brief survey of the features using the Hindi blocks, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-xbMmjWlHE . For introductory instructional videos with a few string problems in English, see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp2Y2vdJAgErWyk_kPlKDs9RjQ6YpzV9X .
More documentation about customization to be added in the future.
If you make changes, you can reduild with Node Package Manager using the command: npm run build