Consolidated blocks - Operators and comparators are consolidated to fewer blocks using drop-downs.Zoom - Zoom in and out of the blocks canvas to get a closer look at your program.Undo/redo - If you make a mistake you can undo it, and then redo it.What else is new?Įxisting Sphero Edu users will feel right at home with the same basic layout, but will be delighted to find new features like: Also, if you have existing programs, they will instantly be migrated to the new format when you open them in the app… meaning you won’t lose any work. Check out our tutorial video to see all of the updates, and view our updated blocks series activity videos that now match the new format. While there are a few slight changes, the program functionality and blocks are essentially the same. Our team made sure to Sphero-ize the Scratch interface by making the layout and blocks similar to our existing design, and by adding improvements like touch friendly screens, new sensor diagrams, and doubling our sound library to make sure it’s all perfect for programming our robots.įor users already familiar with our blocks canvas, we’ve got you covered. We’re developing our newest version of Scratch to make it even easier for developers just like Sphero to build their own coding-apps inspired by the Scratch block-based language. “Since our initial launch in 2007, Scratch has influenced many of the block-based coding-apps available today. However, Sphero robots are not integrated in the Scratch online community, this update is only in the Sphero Edu app. Scratch recently made it even easier for developers (like Sphero) to use the Scratch code base and adapt their block programming tool for their own projects, and so we have redesigned our blocks canvas and based it on their open-source library. ![]() Fast forward to 2018 and it’s now the most popular block programming language in the world with over 28,000,000 users. In 2007, three years before Sphero was founded, the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab released the first version of the Scratch block-based programming language and online community. Sphero Edu Implements Scratch by Binary Bill Scratch: The what and why
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