Comments on: Plug-and-play for arduino http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/ Fri, 24 May 2013 22:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Daniyal Ansari http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-75232 Daniyal Ansari Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:35:35 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=2992#comment-75232 Okay, now I got it working. I must have downloaded the zip file, not the executable merely.

]]> By: Daniyal Ansari http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-75228 Daniyal Ansari Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:49:09 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=2992#comment-75228 This Minibloq is bot working in my 32-bit Windows7 Ultimate.
The Version I’ve downloaded is “Minibloq.v0.8.Beta(English)” EXE from http://blog.minibloq.org/p/donwload.html
Any help would be appreciated.
Please help me sorting out this.

]]> By: doncrush http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-73407 doncrush Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:09:51 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=2992#comment-73407 We have been using Scratch 4 Arduino effectively in a 5th grade classroom. There is no way we could do this without a program like Minibloq! I applaud the effort. If you want it to do everything that you can do in the “real” programmers world then you are not the target audience!

I hope Minibloq does great!

]]> By: priya http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-73398 priya Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:16:25 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=2992#comment-73398 I get your point of view. Being a programmer myself, I have grown-up to believe that there are no free lunches. But, I was thinking from the level of a child aged 6 or 7. This could prove to build the basic kind of logic inside the young minds. Just a friendly way to introduce people to the more exciting aspects of technology, rather than the deeply technical boring-to-kids stuff.

]]> By: George Sudarkoff http://blog.arduino.cc/2011/11/04/plug-and-play-for-arduino/comment-page-1/#comment-73306 George Sudarkoff Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:37:22 +0000 http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=2992#comment-73306 The Lego-style programming environment is a pipe-dream that will NEVER become a reality. There are multiple reasons for that. I can go on and on and on about it, but the bottom line is – the visual language you will have to come up with – that is sufficiently flexible and expressive to have any practical usefulness – will resemble Chinese more than English and we all know that Chinese is MUCH harder to learn than English. Non-programmers are better off learning an easy, well supported, clean general purpose scripting language like Python. We’ll be doing a great disservice to creative non-programmer types by pushing them towards custom one-off hacks like Minibloq. No offense to the authors of the environment. THEY are probably having lots of fun with their project.

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