Blockly Delights

STEM Education through Minecraft

 

Stephen O'Connor

May 8th, 2018

How to get kids to care?

  • They don't
  • Meh
  •  

Minecraft

https://minecraft.net/

 

And Blockly

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

 

Demo

Challenges

  • Blockly is built to generate code.
    • Awesome for Scratch
    • Don't want client code running on server
       
    • Solution: Make blockly generate JSON
{
  "type": "speak",
  "val": {
    "type": "const",
    "val": "Hello"
  }
}

JSON Example

Things to do:

  • Refactor code
    • A lot of copy/paste.
    • ES6 style classes will simplify code
  • More command blocks!
    • Comparisons
    • Actual Minecraft block interaction
      • (build/inspect/destroy)
  • Multiple bots
    • Should support it already
    • Need to improve Bot Management

The End

github.com/stevarino/blockly_delights

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