Using Blockly in bxp

Overview

Blockly is a Google tool which makes writing computer code easier.

https://developers.google.com/blockly/

As a support tool to help people learn how to develop JavaScript in bxp, the blockly interface has been applied in a number of places throughout bxp, mainly around Forms, especially on the onLoad of forms.

The bxp instance of blockly has been heavily customised to only include rules, libraries and functionality appropriate and supported by bxp. Whilst not as open as pure JavaScript coding, Blockly provides a very visual, easy to interact with interface for developing bxp JavaScript code.

bxp using Blockly purely as a support aid for those learning JavaScript.