blockly-mooc

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

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 in the Node module repository. See ./package.json and npm --help for details. Run ./script/release to run a fullly-localized build, stamp a git tag to GitHub and publish the contents of the ./dist directory.