D4d4rcyc·Nov 19, 2019
this reminds me of a project with similar goals (of providing learner coders with a "level-up" from Scratch) https://github.com/stevekrouse/WoofJS
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WoofJS
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stevekrouse / WoofJS
WoofJS
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2 sourcesAs a computer science teacher, I was struggling to find a graphics framework for my students. Because my students all loved MIT’s Scratch, I heavily leaned on it for inspiration.
The result is an object-oriented graphic framework and IDE with built-in documentation, autocomplete, auto-run, and more!
While it was created with 11-year-olds in mind, I hope WoofJS will be useful to anyone making graphical experiences. You can use it to make games, animations and art.
One of our high school students made a version of Frogger: http://woofjs.com/create.html#Frogger
And another made a fun dodging game with emojis: http://woofjs.com/create#poop-emoji
We’re open source if you wanted to contribute :)
https://github.com/stevekrouse/WoofJS
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