Building the Future with Blockly at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
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Google's Blockly project has graduated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, sparking discussion about its role in programming education and its potential limitations.
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> Platforms like Scratch, MakeCode, and MIT’s App Inventor are all built with Blockly. It’s no exaggeration to say that hundreds of millions of young people have learnt the fundamentals of computer science using software that is built with Blockly.