Programming Experience Toolkit (PXT) is a framework for creating special-purpose programming experiences for beginners, especially focused on computer science education. PXT's underlying programming language is a subset of TypeScript (leaving out JavaScript dynamic features).
The main features of PXT are:
- a Blockly-based code editor along with converter to the text format
- an ACE-based text editor with enhanced, robust auto-completion and auto-correction
- extensibility support to define new blocks in TypeScript
- an ARM Thumb machine code emitter
- a command-line package manager
Install the pxt command line tool (only need to do it once):
npm install -g pxt
Now, let's say you want to install microbit target:
mkdir mymicrobit
cd mymicrobit
pxt target microbit
pxt serve
The last command will open default browser and point it to http://localhost:3232/
The pxt target microbit is essentially the same as mkdir node_modules; npm install pxt-microbit
plus setting up pxtcli.json file to point to the target.
In future, you just need to run pxt serve. You can also run npm update to upgrade
the target and PXT.
First, install Node (http://nodejs.org/). Then install the following:
npm install -g jake
npm install -g tsd
To build the PXT command line tools:
tsd reinstall
npm install
jake
Then install the pxt command line tool (only need to do it once):
npm install -g pxt
After this you can run pxt from anywhere within the build tree.
To start the local web app server do pxt serve within the root directory
of build tree (where this file sits) and then browse to http://localhost:3232
There is a number of custom icons (to use in addition
to http://semantic-ui.com/elements/icon.html) in the svgicons/ directory.
These need to be 1000x1000px. Best start with an existing one. To see available icons go to
http://localhost:3232/icons.html (this file, along with icons.css containing
the generated WOFF icon font, is created during build).
If you're having trouble with display of the icon you created, try:
npm install -g svgo
svgo svgicons/myicon.svg
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