Waterbear - a visual language for Javacript

by toni • 15 years ago

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agazso• 15 years ago

A working demo would be useful to see how to use this after all.

rauljara• 15 years ago

There is a demo. There are a number of controls on the top right, and one is labeled "Demos", though there is only one demo at the moment, and it doesn't seem complete. I suspect this is still very much a work in progress. I seriously doubt the author intended for it to be shown.

warmfuzzykitten• 15 years ago

It doesn't seem to do anything.

iambot• 15 years ago

wow that looks brilliant (from what I can see), do you think its at all useful to people that actually know javascript? or is it more of a tool for those that dont/are learning?

evangineer• 15 years ago

From the github page, the intention is that it's an introductory educational programming tool, that provides a concrete visual syntax that's easier for kids to get to grips with than the usual textual one.

windsurfer• 15 years ago

It looks really useful as an add-on to a level editor for a game. Custom scripts that designers can create!

Sudarshan• 15 years ago

Awesome this is just like http://scratch.mit.edu and

google has a product called app inventor.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Hope it is now easily accessible as a web app... Cool UI.

tluyben22• 15 years ago

Nice work! GPL I hope?

rst• 15 years ago

Apache license, v2, per the source at github: https://github.com/dethe/waterbear

tluyben22• 15 years ago

Oops, clicked too fast on the controls to read. Stupid. Thanks!

robinduckett• 15 years ago

    Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

nprincigalli• 15 years ago

Might want to check MIT's OpenBlocks ( http://education.mit.edu/openblocks ), which is related to Scratch (listed as inspiration by Waterbear) and includes code from StarLogo (slcodeblocks) (also listed as inspiration) and is being refactored "to make the code more amenable to inclusion to other projects". One of the recent uses of OpenBlocks was Google's AppInventor.

Kudos to the Waterbear author! Loved to see it done with JS, HTML5 and CSS3. One less thing in my list of "things that I want to see in the world but may have to build it myself". Watching the repo already! :)

Klonoar• 15 years ago

Ah, neat, Scratch in the browser.

About time. ;)

I'm very drunk and will edit this later. Props!

sfvisser• 15 years ago

Reminds me of Eros (http://conal.net/papers/Eros/) and tangible functional programming (http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/TV). Both by Conal Elliott.

edit: Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ8N0giqzw

ericz• 15 years ago

Try adding

     -webkit-user-select: none;
     -khtml-user-select: none;
     -moz-user-select: none;
     -o-user-select: none;
     user-select: none;

So text in the blocks can't be selected

nicetryguy• 15 years ago

Does not work on android chrome. Can't even scroll

snorkel• 15 years ago

Cool editor UI works in FF 4 but Run does nothing, not even for the demo script.

AshleysBrain• 15 years ago

Shameless plug: my project is a visual programming language - which is actually seriously usable for real things - and exports to Javascript + HTML5 canvas: http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=8468 End shameless plug :)

rman666• 15 years ago

Can't get it to run. I'm in Chrome. Trying FF now.

nitrogen• 15 years ago

Obligatory link to my own visual programming language targeting home/building automation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p36xoBZVQ8c&feature=playe... (blog post: http://nitrogen.posterous.com/kinect-home-automation-goes-ht...).

P.S. Running the included Waterbear demo script seems to do nothing on Firefox 4 and Chrome 12 on Linux.

dkersten• 15 years ago

Thats very cool! The Kinect video with regions reminds me of my uni undergrad final year project (except that your region stuff is much cooler than ours was - cheaper too): http://dublindan.posterous.com/things-ive-worked-on-1

EDIT: pasted wrong link first time :-/

Waterbear - a visual language for Javacript

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