Why does scratch use coding blocks?

Dungions_and_Dragons

I am curious on something, why does scratch's coding language use coding blocks instead of typing out code, I'm also curious on how the developers came up with that idea, if anyone can answer my question that would be great

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The coding blocks are used to help give a visual representation of computer programming. The drag-and-drop nature of the blocks is more intuitive for new coders, and also helps avoid things like syntax errors that are common in other programming languages.

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Dungions_and_Dragons

Za-Chary wrote:
The coding blocks are used to help give a visual representation of computer programming. The drag-and-drop nature of the blocks is more intuitive for new coders, and also helps avoid things like syntax errors that are common in other programming languages.

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Za-Chary wrote:
The coding blocks are used to help give a visual representation of computer programming. The drag-and-drop nature of the blocks is more intuitive for new coders, and also helps avoid things like syntax errors that are common in other programming languages.

Yup. It's actually been rejected by the Scratch Team to make a text-based version (there's a link to The Official list of Rejected Suggestions in my signature, go there to learn more).
As someone who uses text-based programing languages, they can be a pain when you have the smallest of syntax errors that take hours to fix because you can't find them.

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Dungions_and_Dragons wrote:
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because Scratch is 8+, they use building blocks instead of JavaScript text code. not everyone knows how to use JavaScript

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Dungions_and_Dragons wrote:
I'm also curious on how the developers came up with that idea, if anyone can answer my question that would be great

This was actually a super novel idea at the time - the main inspiration for drag and drop block programming stems from a smaller MIT project named LogoBlocks

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