Blockly 20 Hour Curriculum

Blockly is a web-based, graphical programming editor. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required. Credit goes to these awesome developers and a small army of translators.

This repository contains the source code for the Blockly based 20 hour curriculum and Hour of Code. Information about Blockly can be found in the wiki.

Quick Start
Project Specification
Contribute to Blockly

Quick Start

# Get the code
git clone https://github.com/code-dot-org/blockly.git mooc
cd mooc

# Machine setup (OSX with Homebrew)
brew install node
npm install -g grunt-cli

# Build
npm install
grunt

# Run with live-reload server
grunt dev
open http://localhost:8000

# Run tests (after a build, or while dev is running)
grunt test

One of the node modules, node-canvas, depends on Cairo being installed. Instructions for installing Cairo can be found at https://github.com/LearnBoost/node-canvas/wiki.

Project Specification

Both of these tutorials are found on code.org/learn or csedweek.org/learn. At the end of 1-hour, you’re sent to a Drupal thank you page that leads you back to code.org/learn

1 hour tutorial

18 Maze puzzles + 6 videos, with celeb videos and licensed skins
No auth/identity/login, no state
Works on touch-screens, cross-browser (IE9+ required. IE8 highly desired)
Looks good on smartphones / small screens
Translated into at least spanish, and other non-bidi languages

20-hour curriculum

X stages, Y puzzles, Z videos
HAS student auth, teacher auth.
Student can see a map of where they are. Earn “trophies”
Teacher can see dashboard of student progress
Both students and teachers earn real-world rewards upon completion.
Works on touch-screens, cross-browser (IE9+ required. IE8 highly desired)
NOT optimized for smartphones / small screens. NOT translated

Contributing

Style Guide

In general follow google's javascript style guide.
80 character line length.
2 space indent.
4 space indent on long line breaks.
grunt jshint should report 0 warnings or errors.

Localization

Since localizing in to many languages dramatically slows down the build, the default target locales are en_us and en_ploc (pseudolocalized). To build all available locales, specify MOOC_LOCALIZE=1 in your environment:

MOOC_LOCALIZE=1 grunt rebuild

See cdo-i18n for more information about the localization of Code.org projects.

Releases

Compiled distrubutions are published as tarballs to Amazon S3. You'll need the AWS CLI tool and access to the Code.org secrets. Run path/to/secrets/cdo-env ./script/release to produce a fullly-localized build in ./build/package, which will be tared up into ./dist, stampped with a git tag, pushed to GitHub, and published on S3.

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