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- Scratch is the largest free coding community for kids
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Screen-free coding for children: the xylophone maze
and https://codecombat.com, which has been around for a while now.
I think this paradigm (navigating a character using "move" function invocations) is good but kind of exhausts its usefulness after a while. I question whether my daughter learns coding this way or just is playing a turn based top down platformer. The most code like thing is when you use 'loops' to have characters repeat sequences of moves. I think when kids grok these things these apps become just types of glofiried education flavoured video games. There are a lot of things in kodable for instance that I feel are just basic web games with coding terms slapped on it.
https://scratch.mit.edu/ is more like 'programming' imo, even at the level of the objective -- having a blank canvas to create something. It seems a little advanced for my kids right now though.
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Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
+1 Scratch! My son started with it, then expanded into Roblox/Lua.
Children can download other people's games and experiment there. Scratch also has pre-made art, sounds, music.
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Ask HN: Platform for kids to learn how to code
Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]
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Eligiendo un computador para desarrollo
https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Scratch version 2)
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i swear to god if i keep seeing projects abt these 4 franchises every single day i'm gonna break someone's kneecaps
Someone who uses scratch.mit.edu (like me)
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How to learn coding without a degree
Now that I think of it, I did start game development on scratch before going right into java (because of minecraft).
- Copii si programarea
- Teen school project
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Ask HN: Best tools for 4/5 year old to learn programming?
I'm looking for the best systems to help a 4/5 year old get the basics of programming. My daughter has shown interest in what I do, and loves puzzles and building things. Looking for something visual and fun that can start her down the path of logic and creating with computers.
I have a passing familiarity with Scratch [1], which I'm now looking into more, but am hoping others can share their knowledge and experience in this area.
[1] https://scratch.mit.edu/
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Devin, the First AI Software Engineer
Good question.
I expect that we're moving into a phase of AIs talking to AIs, and initially it'll be wasteful (because it'll be mostly English), but eventually, they'll derive their own language and seamlessly upgrade protocols when they determine they're talking to an AI. No clue how that will come about or what that language will look like, but honestly, it's kind of exciting.
Really interesting to think about how they might handle context, as well. Even though we have much bigger context windows (and they'll only get larger), context management is still a resource-management issue, which we'll probably continue to refine, as well. Imagine different strategies for managing both what is brought into the context of each request, as well as what form it could take (level of detail, additional references or commentary on it, etc). Things could get really unreadable even in English, and still be very interpretable for an LLM.
W.r.t. the graph-oriented interfaces, are you thinking something like Node-RED [1]? I'm seeing more and more people mention having LLMs produce non-text or structured outputs, like JSON, UI, and other things. Easy to imagine an LLM that wires together various open-source platforms, on-demand. Something like Node-RED for pipelines/functions, some UI tools for visualization/interactivity, other platforms for messaging, etc...
- IFTTT is killing its pay-what-you-want Legacy Pro plan
- Node-RED: Low-code programming for event-driven applications
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article.
The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time.
That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't.
- n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/
- Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread)
- trigger dev: trigger.dev
- automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/
- Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti...
- Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- budibase: https://budibase.com/
- windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/
- tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows
- Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)
- Zapier: zapier.com/
Anyway I hope some of these are fun!
- Open source IPaaS With Drag and Drop integration
- Ask YC: tracking events platform and no-code workflow
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#OpenSourceDiscovery 84 - Node-RED, alternative to IFTTT or Zapier, a workflow automation tool
Source: https://github.com/node-red/node-red
- Low-code programming for event-driven applications
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n8n.io - A powerful workflow automation tool
I believe Node-RED (https://nodered.org/) the way to go. It's just an NPM package to install and you can run it how ever you wish (even on Windows). It has a friendly and helpful community with even the main developers tirelessly answering even beginner level questions. In fact the community forum its THE friendliest forum I've ever been a member of by a large margin. Node-RED's development is supported by the JS Foundation and it's completely free and open source. It's widely used in the industrial automation industry and even integrated by some PLC manufacturers such as Siemens.
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Loops and conditional branching (IF then else) in ComfyUI?
Does anyone know if their are plans to implement something like this (or if there are already custom nodes out there). I'd like to experiment with things like looping and incrementing values (like a for loop) for a Ksampler for example. It's only an example though, so I am not looking for a ksampler specific solution; just a generic way to have a variable (e.g. Seed value), run some nodes that use that value, increment the value, and then loop back to the beginning until some sort of condition is met. Node-Red (an event driven node based programming language) has this functionality so it could defintely work in a node based environment such as ComfyUI (see here).
What are some alternatives?
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
Home Assistant - :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.
n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool. Easily automate tasks across different services.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
openHAB - Add-ons for openHAB 1.x
processing - Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)
Huginn - Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
stencyl-engine - Create Flash, HTML5, iOS, Android, and desktop games with no code with Stencyl. This is the source to Stencyl's Haxe-based engine.
esphome - ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories